HONOLULU — A federal judge has dismissed portions of an indictment returned against the lieutenant governor and a senator of the U.S. territory of American Samoa.

Lt. Gov. Ipulasi Sunia and Sen. Tini Lam Yuen were indicted in 2007 for allegedly conspiring to split a large project for school furniture construction among companies they owned and a third company owned by another official.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday threw out two obstruction counts contained in the six-count indictment. He also dismissed parts of three other counts concerning fraud and bribery.
Sunia and Yuen had also sought the dismissal of the first count accusing them of conspiracy.
Despite the indictment, Sunia and Gov. Togiola Tulafono won re-election in 2008.