{"id":42959,"date":"2014-07-22T04:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=42959"},"modified":"2014-07-22T04:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:05:24","slug":"mondala-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mondala-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondala pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Office on Aging director Rose DLG. Mondala pleaded not guilty yesterday to the 41 criminal charges that the Office of the Public Auditor filed against her. <\/p>\n<p>At the arraignment, the 69-year-old Mondala, through counsel assistant public defender Eden Schwartz, waived the reading of her constitutional rights and pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja set a status conference on Aug. 26, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Office of the Public Auditor legal counsel George Hasselback appeared for the prosecution. <\/p>\n<p>Hasselback charged Mondala with 22 counts of forgery; six counts of misconduct in public office; eight counts of use of public supplies, time and personnel for campaign activities; two counts of use of public position to obtain benefits for business or social acquaintances; one count of theft of services; one count of theft; and one count of use of office, staff or employees of a public office for personal benefit.<\/p>\n<p>OPA accused the defendant of using the Aging Office\u2019s funds and materials for the needs of the Covenant Party during the 2009 elections and to build a fence at her house in Kagman.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo released Mondala on a $7,500 unsecured or appearance bond during her initial appearance last June 27. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Office on Aging director Rose DLG. Mondala pleaded not guilty yesterday to the 41&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900,4],"tags":[56,960,136],"class_list":["post-42959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-eden-schwartz","tag-opa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42959","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=42959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}