Article: LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, TERRITORIAL SENATOR FOR AMERICAN SAMOA INDICTED FOR PUBLIC CORRUPTION CHARGES

The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

Lieutenant Governor Aitofele T.F. Sunia and Territorial Senator Tini Lam Yuen, of the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, have been arrested on fraud, bribery, and obstruction charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.

Sunia, 64, and Lam Yuen, 56, both residents of American Samoa, were charged today in a six count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, and unsealed today. The indictment charges Sunia and Lam Yuen with one count of conspiracy; one count of fraud and one count of bribery concerning ...

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