Ethics

...Caldwell left O‘ahu the evening of Oct 18 for a 'personal vacation', and is scheduled to return on Tuesday, October 31...

...the Resource Management Committee opted to instead give the grant funds directly to the charter schools, instead of to the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement....

"...The four men who restrained Rep. Quinlan are Rep. Daniel Holt. Rep. Tom Brower, Ali Sek and Benjamin Gates...."

...Hawaiian Beneficiary Funds Continue To Fly Out The Door At OHA....

...Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2016-17 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request....

...the Hawaii AG office denied the public interest fee waiver request and charged $28,396.30 to complete the document search....

...the state Auditor has already informed OHA of its preliminary findings....

...Fukumoto’s Long-Form Financial Disclosures include many details....

...Wednesday, October 11th At 10 AM....

Thanks to support from University of Hawaii Press and Kamehameha Schools, the public now has free access to the bestselling book Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust....

...a secret commission larded with Kealoha loyalists has picked some candidates to continue the tradition....

Over the past several months, there has been a court fight brewing that could have changed how the Department of Taxation lobbies for legislation....

...CMS data show that total costs for new Medicaid beneficiaries in Hawaii rose from $249.1 million in 2014 to $437.4 million in 2015-a 76 percent single-year increase. Costs per-enrollee jumped 73 percent in that same period, going from $7,462 in 2014 to $12,910 in 2015....

...Audit of Housing First, Community Assistance Program, and Hale Mauliola Homeless Programs....

...Sheʻs Planning To Control Your Phone & Computer....

...Ironically, the Memo itself was not posted on the Governor’s news feed nor is it linked by any Hawaii.gov website....

...there is "supposed to be" opportunity for participation....

...Please Attend The Next Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Board Meeting On Thursday, September 21st At 10 AM At OHA Headquarters....

...Schatz is one of a handful of Democrat lawmakers who have received generous campaign donations from Menendez....

...the Honolulu City Council unanimously approved Resolution 17-199 to audit the rail for financial cost overruns, but watered down language that would’ve made the audit “forensic.”....

...He Didnʻt Do It Because Of His Respect For Mauna Kea, But Rather For Something Else....

...the most recent version of the proposed resolution requests an “independent forensic audit” of HART operations and contract awards....

... How stupid does Peter Apo think we are? ....

...Timson worked at First Hawaiian Bank as vice president while FHB Chairman Don Horner was HART board chair. She organized large groups of screaming union supporters to crash, harass and threaten at public meetings....

...Require the State Auditor to perform a forensic audit to look for fraud, waste, and abuse....

...Apo violated the State Ethics Code by using OHA resources, and his position with OHA, to advance his private business interests....

...FTA is complicit.  That’s why it is likely to approve a Plan B that stops at Middle Street....

...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....

Hawaii lawmakers are finally embracing the call for a “deep dive” audit of the Honolulu rail project, but how they follow through on that embrace could make it all for naught....

...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project!....

...UH Manoa anti-GMO prof Hector Valenzuela curiously worked hard to hide part of his emails....

...Judge Fujino dismissed the case because plaintiffs cannot file suit directly in the circuit court challenging the application of a rule....

...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....

...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....

...153 employees received $1.7 million in overtime for bulky and white goods collection....

...Please send your comments on the draft strategic plan by September 1, 2017....

...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....

The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....

“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."

...Mahalo for helping this idea to catch on....

...Cliff Slater told the HART board that “everything should come up on the table, as John Henry Felix is calling for.”....

...Telescope: For OHA, it’s all About the Rent Money....

... If the funding of rail was all that was on the table it would be simple....

...Trump allegedly reviewed the Fox story before it was published on May 16....

...“a criminal probe is now underway on a lucrative, non-bid contract issued by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs”....

What does it say about the state of governance in Hawaii that endorsing basic standards of fiscal responsibility is a revolutionary act?

...Section 8 does not have a formal fraud program although, as of FY 2016, the program's delinquent accounts receivables totaled approximately $1.5 million....

...government may not be able to fund nonprofits that are not closely aligned to current government responsibilities....

...VIDEO: Grassroot Institute writer discusses audit of rail fiasco....

...LaBarre will be sentenced on October 23, 2017....