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Jump to full article: Saipan Tribune (mp), 2006-08-24
Author: Agnes Donato
Intro: The Attorney General's Office brought tobacco firms back to court on Monday because of their alleged refusal to release tobacco settlement funds due the Commonwealth.
Assistant attorney general Brian Caldwell, the CNMI's consumer counsel, said that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and Lorillard Tobacco are illegally withholding some $63,000 owed the CNMI under the tobacco litigation master settlement agreement.
Other tobacco companies, including Philip Morris, have also indicated belief that they are entitled to similar withholdings. If unchallenged, the manufacturers' present refusal to pay the settlement funds could deprive the CNMI of over $525,000 in needed revenue, Caldwell said.
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