The governor is looking at other legal avenues to move forward with her proposed investigation into the attorney general’s employment practices. The island's Magahaga is now seeking a declatory judgement from the court to allow her to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the AG.

Attorney general Doug Moylan failed to respond in time to the governor's request to agree with her appointment of a special assistant attorney general and special prosecutor, according to Adelup. The next step for the governor is to look to the courts to allow her investigation into the AG’s employment practices to proceed. 

The governor's communications director, Krystal Paco San Agustin, says they will file a declaratory judgment "in due course."

As you may recall, the call for independent investigators follows a Freedom of Information Act request that Adelup says revealed AG Moylan and Chief Deputy Joseph Guthrie may have violated multiple Guam laws.   This includes the alleged illegal hiring of more than 70 unclassified employees, to include his brother and questionable promotions of his fiance. 

Adelup notes Moylan’s brother is a special assistant making nearly $120,000.

Meanwhile, the AG’s fiance saw a big salary increase from under $62,000 as a special projects coordinator to $127,000 as the chief of staff. 

In a letter, governor’s legal counsel Jeffrey Moots asked the AG to respond by March 12 - a deadline which has come and gone. That night was the governor’s State of the Island Address. 

Moylan told KUAM News moments after her speech, "All the source of her FOIAs are criticizing what we’re doing in putting together a team, bringing in all those lawyers off Guam, which are prosecutors and which are the people’s last line of defense between the criminals and each one of us in our homes. Without the prosecutor and the attorney general, you will have people getting hurt, killed, maimed – you know, the whole spectrum of things."

Previously, the AG also asked the Guam Legislature to step in to investigate what he calls “unfounded allegations” being made against him by the governor. He argues he removed himself from the hiring process and believes the governor is retaliating against him over his legal opinions on her medical complex.