USA Fanter Corp. Ltd. on Sunday said Imperial Pacific International had once again defamed the construction company.
USA Fanter was responding to the allegation that it overcharged IPI.
“IPI has again defamed USA Fanter by making false statements about its professional expertise,” USA Fanter President Guocao Qian said.
“IPI demonstrates that it has no respect for the federal district court’s rulings because these issues were decided by Chief Judge [for the NMI] Ramona Manglona at the conclusion of a four-day bench trial held in June 2020 and again on February 3, 2021, in the court’s decision and order granting plaintiff partial summary in favor of USA Fanter in the amount of $2,089,345.28.”
USA Fanter stated that during the trial, it was confirmed that the company billings were proper and consistent with construction industry practice. This was affirmed in the testimony of John M. Robertson P.E., an architectural engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, Qian said.
With 57 years of experience, Robertson has professional engineer licenses from Texas, Hawaii, Washington, Missouri, Virginia, Guam and the CNMI, Qian said.
Robertson, moreover, has a general contractor license on Guam, Qian said.
He likewise noted that IPI Project Director Jing Zhou confirmed that IPI’s project manager, Harry Wong, a civil engineer, reviewed to confirm USA Fanter’s completion of work.
Zhou also confirmed that USA Fanter’s billings were sent to IPI’s MK Lee who was authorized to approve billings for payment as long as Lee had no objections to the billings, USA Fanter stated.
It added that Lee never objected to any of USA Fanter’s billings.
USA Fanter has also sued IPI in federal court for publishing false statements against the construction company. The trial will begin on March 1, 2022.
