A hearing on the case of former Executive Director of the American Samoa Government Employees Federal Credit Union Luatua Filisouaiga Taafua set for yesterday has been continued to the week of July 23.
Before Acting Justice Elvis Patea, Assistant Attorney General Robert Morris asked for a continuance because a key witness was off island.
Luatua was not in court.
His attorney Gwen Tauiliili Langkilde said she had filed in November of last year a motion to compel the government to produce documents relating to charges against her client.
And up to now she has not received the requested information from the Department of Public Safety and other government agencies.
Morris responded that he has talked with police and made them aware of the documents that the defense counsel needed.
Judge Patea granted the motion for a continuance stating that the prosecutor needs his witness and it will also give time to defense Counsel Tauiliili Langkilde whom he said was not prepared.
The judge said he expects matters to be solved soon for this case which has dragged on for too long, and set a hearing for the week of July 23.
Luatua was charged in April of 2016 with 21 counts for allegedly misappropriating more than $100,000 of Retirement Fund money while he was director of the government pension plan.
