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STARKIST SETTLEMENT

StarKist canning plant in American Samoa
San Francisco, CA — StarKist Inc., as a defendant, will appear Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the federal court in San Francisco for an arraignment and plea hearing for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of packaged seafood sold in the U.S, according to court records. The US Justice Department had...
Rendering of proposed new Fono Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono has given its endorsement to the Administration’s fiscal year 2018 supplemental budget of $2.6 million, which is American Samoa’s share of the $6.5 million settlement between the federal government and StarKist Co. for StarKist Samoa’s violation of environmental...
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee chairman Magalei Logovi’i
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate yesterday approved in final reading an administration bill, which outlines the distribution of the more than $2 million of American Samoa’s share of the $6.5 million settlement between the federal government and StarKist Co., and its local operations StarKist...
Rendering of proposed new Fono Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has submitted for Fono review and approval, proposed legislation which the governor says is “designed to help protect consumers from unfair and deceptive business practices” in American Samoa. Currently law establishes the Bureau of Consumer...
StarKist canning plant
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has proposed an amendment to local environmental laws, as well as a FY 2018 budget supplement for the distribution of the more than $2 million that the American Samoa Government received under the multi-million settlement payment by StarKist Co...
Malaloa dock
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa government is planning to change the way a US$2.6 million settlement from cannery giant, StarKist, can be spent. The settlement was for environmental violations at its plant. The governor, Lolo Matalasi Moliga, said the entire amount had been...