{"id":368415,"date":"2022-05-16T06:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368415"},"modified":"2022-05-16T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T20:02:50","slug":"ex-ag-investigator-manibusan-targeted-gov-torres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-ag-investigator-manibusan-targeted-gov-torres\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-AG investigator: Manibusan targeted Gov. Torres  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Republican Party of the CNMI issued the following statement Friday:<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cBased on the sworn testimony of the second witness, former chief investigator Lawrence Pangelinan, who served as an investigator for the Office of the Attorney General under the direct supervision of Attorney General Ed Manibusan on or around 2017, the following facts are established:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367767\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Edward-Manibusan-PW-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-367767\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manibusan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General directed that only Governor Torres shall be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Attorney General himself flew premium class. A travel authorization and a boarding pass for business class travel was entered as evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is that Attorney General Ed Manibusan traveled first class after the law was passed. More so, former attorney general Joey San Nicolas also traveled First Class.<\/p>\n<p>According to attorney Tony Aguon, the truth is that both attorney general Manibusan and Lt. Gov. [Arnold I.]  Palacios traveled premium class, yet it was Gov. Torres who was targeted for prosecution.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party of the CNMI issued the following statement Friday: \u00a0 \u201cBased on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":367768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-368415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368415","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}