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‘Ex-HSEM chief, girlfriend brought beer to Rota for political event’
Ex-DPS deputy commissioner also alleges that auditor discovered several air-conditioners missing at DPS
Former Department of Public Safety deputy commissioner Ambrosio T. Ogumoro alleged that then-CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency Management special adviser James C. Deleon Guerrero chartered a plane to Rota and brought beer for a political event in February 2016.
Ogumoro said three persons, including a police sergeant, helped load the beer and joined Deleon Guerrero and DPS administration director Kaye Inos on that Rota trip.
When asked for comment, Deleon Guerrero said he has nothing further to add to the statements he made that appeared in Saipan Tribune yesterday.
Saipan Tribune is still trying to get comments from Inos.
Ogumoro said evidence for that Rota trip has been completed and can be found at HSEM and DPS.
He disclosed that the Office of the Public Auditor did an investigation for possible misuse of funds when Deleon Guerrero was also in charge of the DPS Grants Office and Real ID Program.
Ogumoro said that before Deleon Guerrero became the DPS commissioner, he was assigned in 2014 to assist DPS Motor Vehicle with a Real ID Program that was federally funded in the amount of $600,000.
Under the Real ID Program, he said, an auditor from the states came and discovered that several air-conditioners purchased could not be located.
Ogumoro said an OPA investigation was initiated.
“Why the investigation was halted and never completed is what we want to know,” said Ogumoro, stressing that governing offices are responsible to have accountabilities of all purchased assets, especially using federal monies.
