A Senate committee investigating alleged government corruption in American Samoa says it may yet lay charges against the Attorney-General.
Head of the Senate Select Investigative Committee, Lualemaga Faoa, says the Attorney-General, Fiti Sunia, has tried to tamper with witnesses to its inquiries.
Lualemaga Faoa says Mr Sunia advised officials from the Development Bank of American Samoa not to hand over loan records subpoenaed by the committee.
Lualemaga Faoa says this could amount to a felony and he wrote to Mr Sunia last week spelling out the seriousness of the situation.
"So I suggest [to] him to reconsider his position and I enforced that any non compliance with our subpoena will result in an application for contempt of the Senate citations, and that is my response to the Attorney-General."
Lualemaga Faoa says the committee will wait to see if bank officials appear at a scheduled hearing today before it decides what further action to take.
He says the bank still has not given the committee all the loan records it wants.
Mr Sunia could not be contacted.
