A Bad Guy, On The Radio

It's funny being part of this small community on island. Sara and I both occupy relatively public positions with the Office of the Attorney General. We make court appearance on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. We are involved with several government departments and act on their behalf in public forums and meetings. Our work even ends up in the media.

The media in American Samoa has a difficult job. They have papers to sell, radio news reports to write and not a lot of activity here on-island that generates news. Therefore it is not uncommon for cases the Office of the Attorney General is involved in to be reported. As this is one of the places journalists can go to find information being generated on this little rock we live on.

This morning everyone was mentioning that my name was on the Monica Miller news report that aired during the morning commute today. Turns out the media was reporting on an answer and counterclaim I filed last week in one of my cases. I found the headline particularly funny: "ASG Sues the Family of Man Who Died in Custody." Makes me sounds like a heartless brute. Sometimes that's the cases you get as "the Man."