CUC Executive Director Tony Muna said some of the agency’s employees have been subpoenaed and questioned as reported by the Variety last week.
According to Muna, the investigation was initiated before he became executive director in May and involves not just recent contracts.
“The FBI asked us for documents,” he said. “We’re an open book. There’s no reason why we should hide anything. They requested for documents just like any other agency or individuals [invoking] the Open Government Act. We provided them those documents,” he told Variety.
“As far as their action on the information they received from us, it’s kind of a wait-and-see situation,” he added.
Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Villagomez, a former executive director of CUC, was among those who signed contracts for CUC’s federally funded projects.
Press Secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr. yesterday said Villagomez returned to Saipan over the weekend from New York where he attended a national conference for lt. governors.
Villagomez did not report for work yesterday.
CUC gets grants or technical assistance every year from different federal agencies.
Last year, the U.S. Department of the Interior awarded CUC a total of $5.4 million in federal grants to rehabilitate its old power facilities.
Much of the money was sourced from unused capital improvement project funds from 1997 to 2007.
