{"id":47026,"date":"1999-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/94cada16-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-06-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-06-21T00:00:00","slug":"94cada26-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/94cada26-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-OPA chief wants criminal record cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Public Auditor Scott Tan, who had served a two-year sentence for misusing public properties during his term in the government,  has asked the Superior Court to clear his record by removing his criminal conviction file.<\/p>\n<p>Through lawyer Perry B. Inos, Tan filed with the court on Thursday a motion seeking an &#8220;order vacating his conviction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In filing the motion, Inos invoked the Office of the Probation&#8217;s March 29 report that Tan &#8220;has fully complied with all the conditions of his probation\/suspended sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tan was sentenced on Dec. 14, 1994 after being found guilty of misusing government equipment and vehicle that belonged to the Office of the Public Auditor.<\/p>\n<p>He was placed on probation for a period of two years under supervision of the Office of Probation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The term of his deferred sentenced has expired on Dec. 14, 1996,&#8221; Inos said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon discharge of Tan without imposition of sentence, the court should vacate the judgment of conviction [so that Tan] may not be deemed to have been convicted,&#8221; Inos added.<\/p>\n<p>Tan was also charged recently by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office for allegedly beating his wife Cecilia.(MCM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Public Auditor Scott Tan, who had served a two-year sentence for misusing public properties during his term in the government,  has asked the Superior Court to clear his record by removing his criminal conviction file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47026","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\/47026","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=47026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}