American Samoa Property

For the 1990 financial year, the General Fund had a total appropriation of $56.9 million.

This is a report: American Samoa tidal wave warner wasted

Part one of a two-part inquiry whether German government funding for a tidal wave alarm system was abused at 10:00 ET on AC 360° this evening. Evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security had spent billions of German Government money on emergency response, which included the building of an island-wide sirensystem.

However, all state financing was suspended in early 2007 after DHS investigators found that the Samoa locals had diverted billions of these bucks for their own purposes. Bird-sall Alailima, from 2003 to 2007 Executive of American Samoa's National Territory of Homeland Security, now resides in the south of Illinois, not far from St. Louis, Missouri.

"I will not hold them responsible for having froze the money," Tulafono said.

"Those are government assets for which they are in charge and which they considered suitable for freezing. "The only thing I'm saying is that we tried to work with them and get part of the approvals (of the money), and that hasn't yet been done. "An officer of the Confederation has called the governor's testimony "nonsense."

" The American Samoa would have freeze monies if it consented to repay even part of the monies it had used. According to the officer, the goverment and the gubernator rejected it, and the tidal wave system was canceled. Samoan American administration officers said they bought another alert system -- radio sets that would have set off warnings across the entire isle.

⢠Both the present Samoan-Lit. District Administrator and a former state minister are under Federal prosecution for deceit, corruption and plot. Proceedings are underway in Washington because there are no Federal Supreme Court on the Isle. ⢠The May 2007 May 2007 Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff reported citing a number of instances of US-Samoan government aid misuse.

Featuring the finds of the document includes the acquisition of six flat-screen TVs for more than $25,000; acquisition of the executive kidskin chair for $4,000; $77,000 spend on gear that no inspector could find; and bulky travel and maintenance costs, inclusively monies issued in Las Vegas, Nevada, by a Samoan officer for a meeting he was committed to have served in Colorado.

The DHS Brief, which freezes its financing, was sent on 12 January 2007. This measure was taken because "we found that Homeland Security Grant proceeds were used by state authorities for purposes other than the planned use of Homeland Security fund. "In the Samoan towns devastated by the tidal wave, there are no new tales of bribery.

"Each year they get billions and billions of US Dollar. "Since 1995, American Samoa has been receiving nearly $2 billion in government funding from almost every governmental body. The 65,000 population - the equivalent of a typically American outskirts - receive about $250 million in government funds each year on averages. Feds said they don't believe any Treasury Department agent will become wealthy.

Instead, they said, state resources -- including disaster prevention monies, which should have gone to the alert system -- were instead used to create on-site labor in an economy that is almost entirely dependant on U.S. state awards. In addition, the sources added that any federation can have many staff whose job it is to distribute federation resources, but only a relatively small number whose job it is to "manage" or charge that moneys.

" "We' re helping the island to reconstruct and recover," Kendra Barkoff said,'but taxpayers' money is being spent with strict supervision and full accountability."