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Roberto’s witness agrees to a plea deal with the US govt
Randy A. Igisomar, a 22-year-old man who was indicted in federal court for allegedly lying during the jury trial of Raymond B. Roberto, has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. government.
Assistant U.S. attorney Ross K. Naughton informed the U.S. District Court for the NMI yesterday that Igisomar and the U.S. government signed the plea agreement on Wednesday. The plea agreement was filed under seal.
Naughton asked the court that Igisomar’s case be set for a change of plea hearing.
The indictment charged Igisomar with perjury, obstruction of justice, and false statement.
In the indictment, one count of perjury relates to Igisomar’s Sept. 10, 2014, testimony when he made a declaration inconsistent with a prior declaration he made while under oath in a grand jury proceeding.
Specifically, on May 6, 2014, while appearing as a witness under oath before the federal grand jury, Igisomar testified that, while detained at the Department of Corrections, he spoke in Chamorro to a friend on the phone and that Roberto told him to tell his friend to get rid of her phone number.
Igisomar stated that he told his friend to get rid of the number because Roberto instructed him to tell it to her right there.
However, in his testimony during Roberto’s trial on Sept. 10, Igisomar stated that his conversation on the phone with his friend was in English. Igisomar also stated that Roberto only asked his (Igisomar’s) friend if she can tell her sister in Guam to contact his (Roberto’s) lawyers and the private investigators.
Igisomar also testified that he did not hear Roberto telling his friend to throw a cell phone.
Igisomar was one of three men who bludgeoned to death a school security guard in 2008, burglarized the school and stole some laptops and other items. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
A federal court jury acquitted the 41-year-old Roberto of all charges that he enticed three underage girls to engage in prostitution and tampered a witness while he was in jail.
A separate indictment was also filed against Roberto’s other witness, former firefighters Richard S. Benavente. Benavente was charged with three counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.
