{"id":391400,"date":"2023-05-11T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=391400"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:03:18","slug":"deleon-guerrero-questions-whether-cnmi-got-reimbursed-20-8m-for-covid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/deleon-guerrero-questions-whether-cnmi-got-reimbursed-20-8m-for-covid-response\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLeon Guerrero questions whether CNMI  got reimbursed $20.8M for COVID response"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_391200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-391200\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Edith-E.-DeLeon-Guerrero36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-391200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Edith-E.-DeLeon-Guerrero36-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-391200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senate President Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) is questioning whether the CNMI government got reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the $20.8 million the Torres administration paid for its COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s inquiry as to why there is a need to investigate the $93-million FEMA Community Disaster Loan funds, DeLeon Guerrero said Monday that a prior report states that $6.8 million worth of expenses was transferred to the FEMA CDL. A few months later, she said, numerous expenses were funded by these FEMA CDL funds.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero has created a special committee and appointed Sen. Donald M. Manglona (Ind-Rota) as chairman to investigate the Torres administration\u2019s expenditures of the CDL funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate president noted that the CNMI received a total of $88.7 million of FEMA CDL funds in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021. DeLeon Guerrero said these funds allowed the reimbursement of COVID-19 costs taken from the CNMI\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n<p>She said significant amounts of $16.4 million for the CNMI Group Health Life Insurance Plan due to GHLI vendors was paid for, and $20.8 million in CDL money was used to pay for the COVID-19 response. There was also a $5.5 million in paid expenses for the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to validate and confirm these payments to ensure that government payables\/vendors truly received their payments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero said this review requires tremendous analytics to understand the movement of monies as they are classified\/interchanged as receivables, payables, and cash on hand, and\/or assets\/liabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) is questioning whether the CNMI government got reimbursed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":391200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-391400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391400","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=391400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}