The District Court of Guam issued a summary judgment in favor of U.S. Small Business Administration, in the case initiated by the Archbishop of Agana, who isn’t eligible for a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan.
The archbishop filed a complaint against SBA last year and sought a court order to allow the archbishop to get a PPP loan.
The SBA regulations state that bankruptcy debtors are not eligible for PPP loans.
The archbishop in January 2019 filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood on Tuesday ruled in favor of the SBA. The SBA didn’t exceed its statutory authority when it excluded bankruptcy debtors in the PPP, she stated in her decision.
Husband and wife Joshua and Sylvia Reyes were sentenced in federal court this afternoon to individual probation periods, the couple plead guilty to attempted possession of meth with intent to distribu
Jury finds Mark Mayo guilty in meth conspiracy case
The jury also determined that 50 grams of the drug well over an ounce was involved.
The trial involved lengthy testimony from U.S. Postal Inspector Richard Tracy about events of May 10, 2018.
That is when Tracy and other federal and local officials kept watch over who would pick up an intercepted package, which originally arrived on Guam in April of that year, filled with drugs.
The law enforcement personnel removed the drugs, substituted a tracking device and fake drugs, and waited.
Much of the evidence presented involved text and other messages between the alleged conspirators as they sought to track and pick up the package.
In the third day of the methamphetamine conspiracy case against Mark Mayo before Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, two admitted former distributors of the drug testified about the NCS-Dededo operation fronted by Lovelia Mendoza.
Both Joseph Bow Roman and Daniel Pangelinan are awaiting sentencing for their involvement in the drug ring and the events of May 10, 2018, when Mendoza assigned the men to pick up a package at the Barrigada post office. It had earlier been intercepted by law enforcement, who removed the drugs and inserted a tracking device.
Both men said they were to be paid with meth.
Text messages retrieved from Pangelinan s cell phone provided documentation of events after the pick-up of the package. The men believed they were being tailed by law enforcement and took evasive action.
A change in Guam’s current law to allow telemedicine medication abortion would mean the American Civil Liberty Union’s lawsuit against the government of Guam isn’t necessary, said attorney Vanessa Williams.
“If the legislature updated the laws sufficiently to allow the physicians in this suit to provide care to people in Guam using telemedicine, then the lawsuit would not be necessary, and GovGuam would not waste money defending unconstitutional laws,” Williams said.
Williams and the ACLU, on behalf of two Hawaii doctors Shandhini Raidoo and Bliss Kaneshiro, filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General of Guam, the Guam Board of Medical Examiners and the Commission on the Healing Arts of Guam. The plaintiffs want a court order to allow doctors to provide telemedicine medication abortion to residents on the island.