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TCGCC files civil complaint vs Palmer
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Posted on Nov 30 1999
The Tinian Casino Gaming Control Commission has asked the Superior Court to order former TGCC executive director Paul Palmer to pay $16,072 in expenditures for a training course he did not attend and equipment he failed to return.
Based on the civil complaint filed by TCGCC, the Commission disbursed $7,314 to Palmer which he was supposed to remit to Aristocrat Leisure International as payment for his training and eight others in New South Wales, Australia. It also covered the cost of ground transportation for the participants who left for Australia on June 16, 1997.
But the Aristocrat Leisure International has informed TCGCC that the $6,405 training cost in Australia is yet to be paid.
Mr. Palmer resigned from the Commission on Jan. 16, 1998 without returning office machines and equipment assigned to him, including a laptop computer, cellular phones and accessories, printers and computer accessories amounting to $9,667.
Federal authorities have earlier launched a manhunt for the former TCGCC official who has been indicted for nine counts of fraud charges.
U.S. District Court Judge Alex Munson has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Palmer, who allegedly swindled the commission and casino license applicant by creating a fictitious company which maintained bank accounts in the Philippines and Nevada.
He was charged with nine counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen properties. Palmer has left the island after he attended a Senate committee hearing which investigated TCGCC for illegal disbursement of funds.
