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Ex-CUC board members’ motion to have lawsuit dismissed withdrawn
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho withdrew from the court’s calendar on Thursday a motion by former members of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board to dismiss a lawsuit filed against them by two former employees.
He made the move at the request of the parties in the case and after a meeting with Camacho in his chamber last July 11.
George Lloyd Hasselback, as the lawyer of former CUC information officer Brad Ruszala and former chief financial officer Matthew Yaquinto, and attorney James S. Sirok as counsel for former CUC board chair Adelina C. Roberto and former board members Eric C. San Nicolas, Joseph T. Torres, Albert A. Taitano, and board member Ignacio L. Perez, attended the meeting.
Last May, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres appointed Weston Thomas A. Deleon Guerrero and Matthew Holley to the CUC board, two weeks after sacking all previous board members except Ignacio Perez.
Ruszala and Yaquinto sued the former CUC board directors for violations of the Open Government Act, Government Ethics Code, and U.S. District for the NMI stipulated order.
Ruszala and Yaquinto sued all CUC board members, except David Sablan Jr., for allegedly holding closed-door meetings under the guise of “executive sessions” and using their positions to obtain private financial gain for themselves and their relatives.
Ruszala and Yaquinto asked the court to declare that defendants are in violation of their fiduciary duties.
The plaintiffs requested the court to declare that all ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, directives created by the CUC board in violation of OGA, be declared null and void.
According to Sirok, the lawsuit is nothing more than a veiled attempt to obtain a “stepping stone” for a request to Torres to remove all board members except for David J. Sablan Jr.
