{"id":8262,"date":"2012-04-17T00:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2012-04-17T00:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:54:31","slug":"fitial-gets-1st-update-in-probe-vs-mafnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fitial-gets-1st-update-in-probe-vs-mafnas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitial gets 1st update in probe vs Mafnas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Benigno R. Fitial said he received yesterday morning a summary of Attorney General Ed Buckingham&#8217;s first update on its investigation into complaints filed against Department of Public Safety Commissioner Ray Mafnas, who has been placed on administrative leave since March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Fitial, however, said he \u201ccannot reveal anything yet\u201d because it&#8217;s only the first update, and the investigation and reports are not completed yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still need to review the summary and then wait for the details to discuss,\u201d Fitial said in an interview at the ribbon-cutting of RE\/MAX Paradise Realty in Dandan yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Once the investigation and report are complete, the administration will disclose the findings, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course. I can do it myself or ask the attorney general to talk to you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General&#8217;s three main areas of investigation are the complaints filed against Mafnas by two security guards and a dive instructor; the allegations contained in a petition signed by DPS employees against Mafnas; and a letter from a police captain alleging that Mafnas interfered with a murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Fitial said the summary he received from the AG is \u201conly like three pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said this summary report is only between him and the AG. This will not be communicated to Mafnas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is only the first summary update,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Fitial administration has vowed to thoroughly and fairly investigate each complaint filed against Mafnas.<\/p>\n<p>DPS deputy commissioner Ambrosio Ogumoro is the acting commissioner for both DPS and the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter Gov. Benigno R. Fitial said he received yesterday morning a&#8230;<\/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-8262","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\/8262","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=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}