Hagåtña, Guam – Today, the Office of the Governor sent an additional Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), not seeking new material but asking for materials that the OAG failed to produce in its response to a prior FOIA. Specifically, while the Office of the Governor previously requested all contracts and procurement records for any lawyer or law firm the OAG has hired since Attorney General Doug Moylan took office, the contracts produced by the OAG significantly outnumber the procurement records produced. This means that the OAG either violated the FOIA law by not providing complete responses to the Governor’s FOIA request or that he violated the procurement law by not keeping a procurement record for attorney contracts worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. The Office of the Governor had granted a substantial extension to the AG’s office for the response to the initial FOIA, so the AG has no excuse for his failure to produce a complete response.
“The AG knows full well that the law requires him to keep detailed records for every procurement that comes out of his office, so this is something his office should already have compiled. It is a huge red flag that he hasn’t produced a procurement record for some of these substantial attorney contracts,” said Adelup Director of Communications Krystal Paco-San Agustin. “These rules exist for a reason – to prevent waste and abuse and keep agencies from giving sweetheart deals to their friends. Again, it highlights the AG’s refusal to play by the same rules that apply to everyone else.”
The AG has until March 17, 2025 to respond to today’s FOIA request.
Below are the FOIA documents received by the Attorney General’s Office.
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Below are the original FOIA requests sent to the Office of the Attorney General:
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