{"id":86130,"date":"2004-12-03T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a18a5bf9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-12-03T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T04:01:00","slug":"a18a5c09-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a18a5c09-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Extortion charges filed vs man who &#8216;sold&#8217; testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing criminal charges at the Superior Court for allegedly extorting money from another in exchange for falsified testimony in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Office filed charges of theft by extortion and bribery against Javier M. Atalig Jr., a 35-year-old resident of Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crimes were committed on Saipan sometime from Oct. 16 to 29, 2004, CNMI chief prosecutor David Hutton said in criminal information filed with the court earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Atalig threatened to falsify his testimony in court if money in the amount of $2,000 was not given to him by Ms. Mei Huang and\/or Zhi Jun Liu,\u201d Hutton said.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton alleged that Atalig later received some $1,000 in cash from Mei and\/or Zhi in exchange for falsified testimony in court. (John Ravelo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing criminal charges at the Superior Court for allegedly extorting money from another in exchange for falsified testimony in court.<\/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-86130","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\/86130","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=86130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}