CONTINUED HEADLINE: FBI Closes Investigation Despite Massive Chinese Casino Corruption in US Territory GUEST NAME: Grant Newsham SUMMARY: Former CNMI Governor Arnold Palacios requested FBI investigation into $1.6 billion missing COVID funds and Chinese c
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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HEADLINE: FBI Closes Investigation Despite Massive Chinese Casino Corruption in US Territory
GUEST NAME: Grant Newsham
SUMMARY: Former CNMI Governor Arnold Palacios requested FBI investigation into $1.6 billion missing COVID funds and Chinese casino corruption. Imperial Pacific International (IPI) allegedly facilitated money laundering "hundreds of billions," influenced politicians including Governor Torres. CNMI remains only US territory granting visa-free access to Chinese visitors, raising national security concerns.
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Batsu with my colleague, Grant Nusham, U.S. Marine Corps retired colonel. |
| 0:28.5 | We're talking about the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana's. |
| 0:31.9 | It can include the storied islands of Saipan and Tinian. |
| 0:35.6 | We go now to what is to be done with the allegations and the |
| 0:40.4 | inference of vast corruption by the Chinese state. You recommend open an investigation, a task force |
| 0:48.6 | immediately on the missing COVID money. I want to go to what the FBI can do. What do you |
| 0:53.9 | recommend for the FBI? Well, first, I'd like to see to what the FBI can do. What do you recommend for the FBI? |
| 0:55.6 | Well, first, I'd like to see Treasury be the ones who track down this $1.6 billion in missing |
| 1:00.2 | COVID funds. But then the FBI, they could launch a full-scale investigation, a serious one, |
| 1:05.6 | into the Chinese casinos, gambling, and Chinese influence and corruption. |
| 1:12.4 | They certainly had boatloads of evidence that they picked up before they decided to do nothing with it. It is worth noting that |
| 1:16.9 | at least one of the FBI agents assigned to that apparently has gone to work for the former governor |
| 1:23.0 | who was the subject of these allegations. But they need to go out there and take it seriously, |
| 1:28.0 | and to bring people from off island to do that examination, that would be something that FBI |
| 1:33.8 | could usefully do. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel when it comes to going after it. |
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