US Judge: Saipan casino builder must pay 7 ex-workers $5.4M
by Audrey Mcavoy, The Associated Press
Posted May 24, 2021 7:01 pm EDT
Last Updated May 24, 2021 at 7:14 pm EDT
HONOLULU (AP) A judge on the U.S. Pacific island of Saipan on Monday ordered a Hong Kong company to pay seven Chinese construction workers a total of $5.4 million for forcing them to work long hours in dangerous conditions to build a casino, while they were denied medical care for injuries and threatened with deportation and death.
Chief Judge Ramona Manglona of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, said she issued her ruling after Hong Kong’s Imperial Pacific International repeatedly failed to comply with court orders to exchange information with the lawsuit’s plaintiffs.
US Judge: Saipan casino builder must pay 7 ex-workers $5 4M
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Hafa Adai Mr. Deleon Guerrero and Mrs. Chong-Dela Cruz:
This is to inform you that we had previously requested both your offices, DCCA and HPO, to cease archaeological work and stop any permit issuance to Dr. Michael Dega, Scientific Consultant Services Inc., David Perzinski, and his associates.
As you are aware, SCS Dr. Dega, David Perzinski, and his associates were paid $3 .2 million as the contracted archaeologist for the Best Sunshine International Grand Mariana Casino and Imperial Pacific International Imperial Pacific Resort in 2015.
Both DCCA and HPO were aware of the 2015 desecration that occurred at the 1100 A.D. ancient Chamorro village of Anaguan, the construction site of the Grand Mariana Casino and Imperial Pacific Resort where over 400 ancient Chamorro human remains and artifacts were disinterred, removed, and displaced from their natural grave site.