{"id":24322,"date":"2021-11-08T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:03:32","slug":"nmi-judge-found-former-ipi-chairwoman-in-contempt-of-court-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nmi-judge-found-former-ipi-chairwoman-in-contempt-of-court-again","title":{"rendered":"NMI Judge found former IPI chairwoman in contempt of court again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has found Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, in contempt of court again as she failed to provide backups of her electronically stored information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Cui Li Jie, IPI’s former chairwoman<\/strong> has been found to have failed to provide backups of her electronically stored information\u00a0and the correct login information for her iCloud account. NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona\u00a0<\/strong>has called her to explain her failure to comply and she could face a penalty of US$500 a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney Clyde Lemons, who is representing Cui, has reported his efforts in retrieving backup ESI data and gave notice of the intention to issue a subpoena. Cui\u2019s other lawyer, Joey St. Nicholas, told the court that he would act as a local lawyer to assist in issuing subpoenas to comply with the court\u2019s order. He said Cui was willing to assist and comply.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge ordered Cui to issue a subpoena before Friday, November 5, 2021, and submit a statement before November 8, 2021, detailing why the latest ESI backup data was not provided and why the subpoena was necessary. Mariana’s Variety reported the judge also arranged a state meeting at 8am on November 12, 2021 and that a written order would be issued.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven construction workers\u00a0accuse IPI of labour abuse and human trafficking<\/strong>. Cui Li Jie was named third-party witness in the case. On March 31, 2021, the court approved a motion from the plaintiff and issued an order instructing Cui to identify and save all telephone data she used or created after March 26, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, <\/strong>Cui Li Jie<\/a> <\/strong>said that she was poorly represented in court by her lawyer<\/strong>, Juan T. Lizama. However, in an email disclosed in federal court, Lizama says that John Mo Shi Jian<\/strong>, a former University of Macau law professor, was giving Cui Li Jie bad advice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, Cui Li Jie<\/a> was also found to have breached a court preservation order <\/strong>that obliged her to keep data from her mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the court \u201cfound that Cui blatantly disregarded the court\u2019s order by continuously deleting her WeChat messages even though the court\u2019s preservation order required that she preserve all ESI data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has found Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, in contempt of court again as she failed to provide backups of her electronically stored information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Cui Li Jie, former IPI chairwoman, has been found in contempt of court again for failing to provide backups of her electronically stored information (ESI) and correct iCloud login details. This non-compliance is linked to a case where IPI faces accusations of labor abuse and human trafficking, with Cui Li Jie named as a third-party witness. She faces potential daily penalties and has been ordered to issue a subpoena and provide a statement explaining her failure to comply.","focusai_entities":"Cui Li Jie, IPI, Ramona V. Manglona, Clyde Lemons, Joey St. Nicholas, Juan T. Lizama, John Mo Shi Jian, University of Macau","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Impact?","query":"What is the projected financial impact on IPI, including potential fines and legal costs, stemming from the ongoing contempt charges and the underlying labor abuse allegations, and how might this affect its capital structure?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response?","query":"How might the Northern Mariana Islands' regulatory body respond to IPI's repeated non-compliance and governance failures, potentially impacting its B2C licensing status or operational scope within the jurisdiction?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,154],"tags":[14213,22674],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legislation-news","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24339,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions\/24339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}