This, according to U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson, will give the Federal Bureau of Investigation more time to look into Joseph Vincent Santos’ bank records.
Munson, after a consultation with defense attorney Colin Thompson and Assistant U.S. Attorney Beverly McCallum on July 18 ordered the 44-year-old Santos remain at liberty under the terms and conditions previously set by the court.
Santos has to post a $10,000 secured bond. He cannot leave Guam and Saipan without permission from the probation officer and he cannot use alcohol.
Munson said there were too many questions regarding the defendant’s bank records that needed to be clarified.
Santos entered a guilty plea to mail fraud in 2007 involving $521,813.40. The court accepted his plea and set the sentencing for Dec. 11, 2007 then moved it to Jan. 3, 2008. It was again reset to Jan. 23 because the defendant’s counsel and the prosecutor had off-island schedules.
The sentencing was next postponed to Jan. 23 then re-set to Feb. 26 after Munson ordered the U.S. Probation Office to locate the money amounting to $500,000 previously deposited into Santos’ bank accounts.
The Probation Office was ordered to find out where the money went, how was it spent and what purchases were made with it.
Santos’ sentencing was re-set to June 2, to June 23, July 18, and to Sept. 16.
Santos was the general manager of Marpac — a subsidiary of Ambros Inc. of Guam and Saipan’s distributor of beer — from 1994 to March 2006. His annual salary was approximately $30,000.
Santos was charged with obtaining money amounting to $520,000 from the company by means of false and fraudulent misrepresentations and promises from Jan. 2003 to April,2006.
In order to hide his misdeeds, Santos mailed records to Ambros on Guam to make it appear that operations here were going smoothly.
