Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Marianas Variety's Gina Tabonares reported on-line today that the airport's deputy general manager is being investigated for covering up a case involving her son who allegedly stole some $5K worth of cash last year. The funds were supposedly taken from a vault owned from the Allegro Cafe while the DM's son worked as a manager but happened after he was employed there having had access using an airport badge that he didn't surrender after he was no longer employed with the company. (Believe me, the airport isn't known for making sure those badges are turned in on a timely manner, so if you get a 'T' or visitor's badge, you can keep it long after you're supposed to, especially if 'you know' someone there-friends in high places).
Tabonares further reports that:" Airport police conducted an investigation on the incident when the safety vault of the airport concourse restaurant was emptied. Pangelinan, who used to work with Allegro Café as a manager, was no longer an airport employee when the theft happened. He, however, was able to get an access using his airport badge that he did not surrender. Two airport policemen who were part of the investigation said that when the airport deputy general manager learned about the case, she requested airport police officers A.C. Taitingfong and Oscar Aflague not to pursue the case against her son. The airport deputy general manager, according to the two airport policemen who requested anonymity, made a deal to pay the stolen money with the owners of the airport restaurant that eventually closed."
KUAM reported in their evening news that the airport's deputy has taken leave. One assumes that she's on leave while she's under investigation....and one hopes that Mr. Jesse Torres keeps to his strict rules of no monkey business and fires her and he's fired other employees on the spot for illegal(alleged or otherwise) activities.
There sure were a lot of stealing going on at the airport this last year..........wonder just how much the airport lost to its employees.....but stealing just doesn't happen there, it's an equal opportunity sport, it happens at GWA and GPA and GTA as well....at least it did when GTA was still under govGuam. If you get caught stealing at GTA these days, you're not only out of a job, you'll find yourself in jail, those people don't play games, they're in business for profit....govGuam ain't in business for profit, in fact, I'm not sure they know what that word means, or that stealing is against the law, for that matter!