Ads by Google
Ads by Google
ssic
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) began its hearing last Friday regarding customs practices related to border control and excise taxes on imported goods. This hearing follows concerns about the release of vehicles, a plane, and merchandise without full...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During yesterday's inquiry into the $4.4 million of government funds erroneously transferred to Wells Fargo Bank last year, Treasury officials informed the Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) that more than $100,000 from ASG's General Fund was used to cover the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Treasurer Malemo Tausaga, accompanied by three senior staff members, appeared before the Senate Select Investigative Committee last Friday, to shed light on the current progress of investigations into the fraudulent bank transfer last year of $4.4 million from an ASG...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The whereabouts of LBJ Hospital’s $4.5 million, which was the subject of a fraudulent bank transfer last year, is the main focus of a Senate Resolution unanimously passed on Monday before the Fono went on its four-week recess.
The resolution authorizes the Senate Select...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Members of the Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) have voted to close their investigations into two cases that provoked the ire of many when they were first reported last year, the controversial Nu’ufou matter and the Kite Runner’s infamous trip to Samoa.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Kite Runner saga resurfaced last Friday during a hearing by the Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) and senators were told that the only cargo the locally-owned boat took on its cross-border trip to Samoa, were two cases of chicken and two cases of turkey...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Select Investigative Committee on Friday heard firsthand that local businessman Papalii Laulii Alofa was eager to develop the “Nu’u Fou” land for the benefit of the villages that “own” these lands and that’s why he invested in surveying them.
He was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Businessman Papali’i Lauli’i Alofa has been subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Select Investigative Committee this Friday, Feb. 3, 2023.
This is over the alleged land grab at Nu’u Fou that came to light last year. A senator confirmed to Samoa News that the SSIC has...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean is puzzled as to why the media was banned from a recent Senate Select Investigation Committee (SSIC) hearing by Chairman Senator Togiola T. A. Tulafono.
Tuaolo told Samoa News on Friday that he will “enquire about it. My...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Select Investigative Committee held a hearing this past Friday where the manager of the Survey Division, Amesone Laulu testified, and the media was banned from entering the Fono chambers.
“This hearing is a closed door hearing and the media are not allowed,”...