{"id":777004060,"date":"2023-04-05T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004060"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:06:42","slug":"ccc-board-chair-responds-to-accusations-of-substandard-casino-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-board-chair-responds-to-accusations-of-substandard-casino-regulations","title":{"rendered":"CCC board chair responds to accusations of “substandard” casino regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edward C DeLeon Guerrero has invited lawmakers to explain which parts of the CCC’s work is substandard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- The\u00a0Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC)\u00a0<\/strong>chairman\u00a0Edward C. Deleon Guerrero<\/strong>\u00a0has responded after lawmaker Marissa Renee Flores<\/strong> described the commission’s work as ineffective and substandard. F<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flores made these comments at the ASEAN Gaming Summit in Manila. According to Saipan Tribune, she said she believed the casino operator\u00a0Imperial Pacific International\u00a0was “a terrible company and that CCC had horrible leadership.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guerrero said\u00a0he had never heard the CCC described in such a way and that the CCC was set up to enforce Public Law 18-56. He invited any policymaker who shared Flores’s opinion to visit the CCC to share their thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the CCC had worked for many months with the Office of the Attorney General\u00a0to review gaming regulations in Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, and Michigan. He said the CCC used the Nevada model as a platform, making some modifications.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guerrero also stressed that\u00a0poker and e-gaming required different regulations from other casino games\u00a0and that the CCC had to implement minimum internal control standards that covered more than 800 pages of standard operating procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he was in favour of education and training for policymakers and that CCC was available to assist in improving understanding of the casino industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, the CCC suspended its regulatory operations <\/a>due to a lack of funding due to IPI\u2019s failure to pay its licence fees. At the CCC\u2019s regular monthly meeting, Guerrero said the regulator\u2019s bank account contains a very small amount. He told the Saipan Tribune: \u201cAs of now, we don\u2019t have any. We are out, that\u2019s why all the staff have been released.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward C DeLeon Guerrero has invited lawmakers to explain which parts of the CCC’s work is substandard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) Chairman Edward C. Deleon Guerrero has robustly defended the regulator's efficacy against lawmaker criticism, citing extensive regulatory framework development based on US models. This comes as the CCC faces operational suspension due to Imperial Pacific International's (IPI) failure to pay license fees, highlighting critical governance and financial stability challenges within the Northern Mariana Islands' gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Edward C. Deleon Guerrero, Marissa Renee Flores, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Imperial Pacific International, Office of the Attorney General","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Manila, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Impact?","query":"What is the total outstanding license fee liability of Imperial Pacific International, and what are the specific legal and regulatory consequences for their continued operation in the Northern Mariana Islands?"},{"label":"CCC Funding Solutions?","query":"Beyond IPI's outstanding fees, what alternative funding mechanisms or legislative reforms are being considered to ensure the Commonwealth Casino Commission's sustained operational capacity and regulatory independence?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[21613],"class_list":["post-777004060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-commonwealth-casino-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004060","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=777004060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004071,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004060\/revisions\/777004071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}