IMPERIAL Pacific International LLC continues to work with the U.S. Department of Labor secretary’s field office to match check numbers to workers’ names and assure that the checks actually cleared, IPI attorney Michael Dotts told the federal court.
“To expedite this process, IPI subpoenaed copies of all of the cancelled checks in issue from the Bank of Guam. BOG is cooperating with IPI in this matter and allowed IPI to serve the subpoena on its Saipan branch even though the records are located on Guam,” Dotts added in his 13th status report to the District Court for the NMI.
He said IPI’s Payroll 8 was distributed on April 9, 2021.
There was an issue with the wire transfer from Hong Kong because the people involved were on vacation so IPI ended up paying this payroll in cash, Dotts said, adding that the full payroll was distributed on time.
IPI’s next payday is on April 23, 2021.
Dotts said IPI employee housing still has power, and “food services have continued without interruption for all IPI H-2B workers.”
The lawyer said he has no repatriations to report and that construction work at the IPI resort in Garapan remains suspended as ordered by the court.
In his previous report to the court, Dotts said the first settlement payment in the amount of $164,270.08 was timely delivered on April 1, 2021.
On March 29, 2021, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona approved the first amended consent judgment between IPI and USDOL, thereby suspending the previously ordered receivership for the casino developer.
The total amount owed by IPI under the consent judgment was $3.36 million of which IPI paid a total of $1.92 million from March 2019 to March 2021.
The remaining balance was $1.43 million plus $47,856 of wages owed for a total amount of $1.478 million.
To pay the remaining balance, IPI was ordered to make incremental monthly payments of $164,270.08 from April 1, 2021 to Dec. 1, 2021.
