{"id":364832,"date":"2022-03-24T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=364832"},"modified":"2022-03-24T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:06:15","slug":"manglona-digital-footprints-show-alepuyo-had-bigger-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/manglona-digital-footprints-show-alepuyo-had-bigger-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Manglona: Digital footprints show Alepuyo had bigger role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on the digital footprints left on the draft of the Senate\u2019s Impeachment Rules, Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres\u2019 personal counsel, Viola Alepuyo, either created the rules from the start or played a role in drafting, reviewing, and editing the rules, according to Sen. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota) Tuesday. <\/p>\n

In a letter to Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), Manglona reiterated his request for an immediate investigation into what he described as \u201cimproper communication\u201d between the Senate\u2019s special counsel, Joe McDoulett, and Alepuyo that resulted in them \u201ccolluding\u201d to draft the Senate\u2019s Impeachment Rules.<\/p>\n

As of press time, Saipan Tribune was still trying to obtain comments from Alepuyo and McDoulett. <\/p>\n

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Manglona said his letter was his second request to the Senate legal counsel to identify which laws and rules had been broken and provide the complete list of all instances when Alepuyo and McDoulett communicated and collaborated on the impeachment proceeding, as well as any additional communication or collaboration.<\/p>\n

The senator said that he has indeed read the Impeachment Rules and that it is clear to everyone in the Commonwealth that they lean heavily in favor of Torres. \u201cNow it appears we have some insight to how this came to be,\u201d Manglona said.<\/p>\n

He accused Sen. Karl King-Nabors (R-Tinian), who chairs the Senate Committee on the Impeachment Hearing, of trying to minimize the \u201cegregious nature of these violations\u201d when he stated that there wasn\u2019t any ex parte communication because the Rules had not been adopted when Alepuyo helped draft them.<\/p>\n

Manglona said even of King-Nabors doesn\u2019t comprehend the unethical implications of his actions, Alepuyo and McDoulett most certainly should.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey knew who they represented and the conflicts they overlooked, but they continued to engage in this unethical behavior because they didn\u2019t think they would get caught in the act,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n

King-Nabors earlier said that Alepuyo provided him some assistance in making minor edits to a draft of the Rules. King-Nabors said Manglona has \u201cmistakenly and unjustifiably ascribed nefarious motive\u201d to his request for Alepuyo\u2019s help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on the digital footprints left on the draft of the Senate\u2019s Impeachment Rules, Gov….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":363869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364832","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}