On behalf of my family in the Philippines\u2014my mother and family, Emie\u2019s two daughters, Erika and Francine, and relatives\u2014my brother Ed and I would like to thank each and everyone of you who in one way or another worked zealously to bring justice. My sister Emie\u2019s murder caused great suffering for us and your efforts and service gave us hope and healing. My brother and I especially thank:
\nThe Attorney General\u2019s Office: Attorney General Patrick San Nicolas, Chief Prosecutor Brian Flaherty, Assistant Attorney General Margo Brown Badawy, and former chief prosecutor Shelli Neil;<\/p>\n
-The staunch FBI agents: Mr. Haejun Park and Joseph Auther;<\/p>\n
-Department of Public Safety: Officer Simon Manacop and other investigators;<\/p>\n
-Judge Joseph Camacho and all members of the jury;<\/p>\n
-All the witnesses for the prosecution that strengthened the case;<\/p>\n
-U.S. Pinoys for Good Governance\u2019s Dr. Celia Lamkin;<\/p>\n
-The CNMI government;<\/p>\n
-Victim advocates Dixie Inos, The Good Shepherd sisters c\/o Sr. Stella Mangona, Lauri Ogumoro, and Guma Esperansa shelter;<\/p>\n
-Compassionate Friends group and Nutese staff;<\/p>\n
-Mr. Ron Biggers, Scott Dottino, and all of Godfather\u2019s staff who worked with my sister Emie; and<\/p>\n
-To all of my sister\u2019s friends.<\/p>\n
May God bless all of you who walked with us in our journey of suffering but gave the support and encouragement we needed.<\/p>\n
From the bottom of our hearts, \u201csalamat po.\u201d Justice has been served. Our hearts still ache because we lost our sister Emie. We might not be able to bring her life back but you all gave us hope and healing.<\/p>\n
ESTELITA RELATA<\/strong> On behalf of my family in the Philippines\u2014my mother and family, Emie\u2019s two daughters, Erika…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[178,21],"class_list":["post-33506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fbi","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEDONG RELATA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"