{"id":404019,"date":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404019"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Man-who-pleaded-guilty-to-bribery-ordered-to-pay-a-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Man-who-pleaded-guilty-to-bribery-ordered-to-pay-a-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who pleaded guilty to bribery ordered to pay a fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who previously pleaded guilty to bribery involving a Division of Fish and Wildlife employee was ordered to pay a fine Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo ordered Ji Jing Borja last week to pay a fine of $500 for his involvement in a bribery scheme with Fish and Wildlife employee, Marvin Rodney Pangelinan. In addition to the fine, Borja must pay a court fee of $25 by Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Borja previously pleaded guilty to offering, receiving and soliciting gifts or favors on Dec. 21, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Borja\u2019s co-defendant, Pangelinan, was ordered to pay a $500 fine and a court cost of $25.<\/p>\n<p>On July 13, 2023, Pangelinan pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation or receipt of money for advice or assistance.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Borja paid Pangelinan $100 so that Borja could run his business at the Grotto without proper documentation as required under CNMI law.<\/p>\n<p>Borja operates and\/or is employed by Blue Ocean Tinian Corp., the holder of a CNMI business license to operate as a scuba diving tour operator on Tinian.<\/p>\n<p>However, court documents state that on Feb. 12, 2023, Blue Ocean or Borja did not have a business license to operate as a scuba diving tour operator on Saipan, nor did it, or Borja, possess a water sports permit issued by the CNMI Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality\u2019s Division of Coastal Resources Management.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not having either a valid business license or water sports permit, Borja brought a group of tourists to the Grotto to go scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/6a3d5a020ecb0ef53ac1061ff36cde11.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Kenneth Govendo<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who previously pleaded guilty to bribery involving a Division of Fish and Wildlife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404019","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}