By Pacific Island Times News Staff
Expressing confidence his office “will withstand any type of scrutiny,” Attorney General Douglas Moylan lashed back at Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero, who is seeking an investigation into the hiring practices in his office.
“Her legal ploys are not only a nuisance but a distraction from me conducting the people's legal business,” Moylan said. “Her weaponization of the criminal justice system at taxpayers’ expense does nothing to maintain or improve our quality of life.”
Krystal Paco-San Agustin, communications director at the governor’s office, said today is the deadline for Moylan to consent to the governor’s plan to appoint an assistant attorney general and a special prosecutor to investigate the allegedly illegal hiring at the Office of the Attorney General.
With or without Moylan’s go-ahead, the governor will file a petition in court for the appointment of a special attorney general and a special prosecutor, Paco-San Agustin said.
The governor is seeking to look into the legality of the OAG’s move to hire Moylan’s brother, Scott Moylan, to promote his fiancée, Sheenalyn Hawkins, and populate the office with 70 unclassified employees.
“Compare her actions to my having hired and assembled a winning team of attorneys and prosecutors for the past two years, from the mainland and the University of Guam, that protected us from criminals, and all under budget appropriated to me by the Guam legislature,” Moylan said.
He characterized Leon Guerrero’s six years in office as a failure, likening it to the “Fall of Rome.”
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