"Saipan Casino Operator Raided by U.S. Agents", 15 Mar 2018

U.S. federal agents raided a Saipan office of Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd... [I]nvestigators took documents from the office, said the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss a non-public matter... In a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange Thursday, Imperial Pacific said “there was no raid by U.S. agents on any of its offices, its casino, or buildings.”...Since arriving on Saipan in 2014, the company has become the dominant force on the island... It has made millions of dollars in payments to Governor Ralph Torres’s extended family... The governor and his relatives have said they have not acted improperly.  It’s not clear what the aim of last week’s raid was, but it was at least the second time that U.S. law-enforcement officials have made inquiries related to Imperial Pacific’s casino project in Saipan.[I[ March 2017. U.S. prosecutors...  charged several employees of Imperial Pacific construction contractors with offenses related to using undocumented labor. Some pleaded guilty. Imperial Pacific said at the time that it had no knowledge of workers being employed illegally.