IPI paid USA Fanter US$300,000<\/strong>, leaving an unpaid balance of around $2m, which the court has ordered it to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever IPI requested a civil engineering firm conduct a third-party professional assessment. That assessment claimed that USA Fanter was demanding $2.7m work valued at $454,433<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUSA Fanter President Guocao Qian<\/strong>\u00a0stated: \u201cIPI demonstrates that it has no respect for the federal district court’s rulings because these issues were decided by Chief Judge Ramona Manglona after a four-day bench trial held in June 2020 and again on February 3, 2021, in the court’s decision and order granting plaintiff partial summary in favour of USA Fanter for $2,089,345.28.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The response comes after IPI claimed USA Fanter Corp had overcharged the casino operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI), a casino operator in the Northern Mariana Islands, is embroiled in a legal dispute with contractor USA Fanter Corp over unpaid work. Despite a federal district court order for IPI to pay approximately $2 million, IPI claims overcharging based on a third-party assessment, a stance USA Fanter asserts disregards prior court rulings. This ongoing litigation highlights financial and governance challenges for the operator.","focusai_entities":"USA Fanter Corp, Imperial Pacific International, IPI, Guocao Qian, Ramona Manglona, federal district court","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, USA","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Stability?","query":"What is the potential impact of this $2 million liability and ongoing legal challenges on Imperial Pacific International's overall financial stability and operational licensing in the Northern Mariana Islands?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement?","query":"How might the federal district court's rulings and IPI's alleged disregard for them influence regulatory bodies' assessment of IPI's suitability and compliance with governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[14213,22674],"class_list":["post-27444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444","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=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27450,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions\/27450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}