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As of press time yesterday, Saipan Tribune was still awaiting comments from Yumul.<\/p>\n
At the Commonwealth Casino Commission\u2019s monthly board meeting last Thursday, Yumul lost his temper about the removal of the tower cranes at IPI\u2019s casino\/resort project site in western Garapan, telling CCC board chair Edward C. DeLeon Guerrero that he can \u201cgo to hell\u201d in reaction to a comment the chairman made about the cranes.<\/p>\n
Yumul, however, later apologized to the board.<\/p>\n
Yumul later told Saipan Tribune in an interview after the meeting that so many local politicians benefitted from IPI and now he\u2019s cleaning up their mess. He demanded that CCC look into political influence committed by local politicians to coerce from IPI sweetheart contracts, land leases, and \u201cinteresting contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I do know exactly what the Federal Bureau of Investigation had confiscated,\u201d said Yumul without elaborating it.<\/p>\n
In November 2019, the FBI executed several search warrants on Saipan, including the office of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres. As of yesterday, no one has been charged in connection with those searches.<\/p>\n
In response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s inquiry yesterday, CCC executive director Andrew Yeom said the CCC never granted IPI\u2019s application for Yumul to be its CEO.<\/p>\n
Yeom said they allowed Yumul to speak during last Thursday\u2019s board meeting about IPI\u2019s tower cranes removal as a member of the public. He said Yumul \u201cover-exercised\u201d that option to talk \u201cas if he is the licensed CEO of IPI,\u201d which was not the case.<\/p>\n
The executive director said Yumul clearly crossed his boundaries during the meeting and in fact later apologized to the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was never licensed as a CEO and still is not,\u201d Yeom said.<\/p>\n
Yumul, who is a former Saipan senator, accepted the position of CEO of IPI in January 2021. He then stated that he is considering the job because he wants the casino industry to succeed and resolve the many issues that IPI is facing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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