CNMI Special Prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General James Kingman took to social media to voice frustration over the pace of the public corruption case against former Governor Ralph Torres.

In a public post on Facebook, Kingman wrote, “It has been one full year since the corruption trial that I was brought out here to prosecute was set to begin and the judge had not ruled on a single pending pretrial motion nor issued a scheduling order.”

He added, “Where are the feds? Where is the oversight? Where are the ethics committees? Where is the bar? What are we even doing out here?”

In a direct response to KUAM News’ request for further comment, Kingman said, “Jury selection was supposed to begin one year ago today. We do not even have a scheduling order.”

Torres has denied the allegations.

The case was reassigned to Guam Judge Arthur Barcinas last April.