by Andrew Walden

Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2017-18 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request.

The register shows 2,495 checks totaling $38,664,288.87. View the check register here:

• XCL: 2017-18 Check Register 
• PDF: 2017-18 Check Register

Highlights found by searching the register include

• $19,692.50 paid to Awareness Technologies, Inc  (for software used to spy on OHA internal email and computer use)
• $919,726.00 paid to OHA LLCs -- Hi’ilei Aloha, LLC, Hi’ipaka, LLC, and Ho’okipaipai, LLC.  OHA Trustee Dan Ahuna calls OHAs LLCs ‘a profitable model’ yet they keep getting subsidies year after year.  See: Lawsuit: OHA Uses Corporations to Sidestep Open Meetings Law, Loot Assets, Line Cronies' Pockets
• $300,000.00 paid to Kanu o Ka Aina PCS.  Flashback: “OHA Chair’s Charter School Gets Seven Times More Than All Other Charters Combined”
• $335,182.05 paid to Broken Trust DC Lobbyists Marsh USA Inc.
• $358,570.58 paid to University of Hawaii 
• $166,273.86 paid to Spire. See:  Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years
• $14,949,621.18 paid to Director of Finance or OHA (payroll) 

Not In Good Standing per BREG

• EPIC Foundation -- $105,854.10
• Executive Information Systems -- $12,947.00
• Malama Kauai -- $49,364.00
• PAC Foundation -- $ 24,646.00
• SN Golf Enterprises -- $8,553.96

Robin Danner Etal -- $107,896.88

• CNHA  -- $54,623.88
• Edith Kanakaole Foundation -- $53,273.00

Kakaako ‘Planning’ – $439,991.58

• WCIT -- $352,345.10
• DTL -- $85,146.48
• Na Kama Kai (DTL-connected ‘non’-profit $2,500.00)
• See: “Ethics Complaint: OHA Insiders Take Kickbacks from Kakaako Makai Projects”

Misc. Cronies

• Systemmetrics Corp (Consulting--many insiders) – $107,170.13
• I Ola Lahui (Psych training—many insiders)--$34,879.20
• Solutions Pacific (Ray Soon) -- $188,983.60
• Pa’i Foundation – Vicki Holt Takamine-- $99,583.00

Mystery Money

• $8,553.96 paid to SN Golf Enterprises (DCCA filings delinquent) 
• $6,268.00 paid to S.Y. TAN, MD (somebody’s medical bill?)
• $39,000.00 paid to the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation  Huh?
• $175,966.07 paid to Forest Solutions, LLC (owned by Mrs. Michael Saalfeld) See: “Secrecy surrounds Parker Ranch's sale of 3,509 acres to biofuel pioneer” and “Parker Ranch files lawsuit against German industrialist’s 3,500-acre purchase.”
• Kooler Ice (vending machine co) – $943.67 (A new Kooler Ice machine sits on OHA property at Fisherman’s Wharf site)

Over $1.8M to Lawyers

• $57,910.19 to ES&A, INC which, among other things, is defending the OHA LLCs refusal to comply with Hawaii’s open records laws. See: Lawsuit: OHA-Owned Corporations Must Comply With Open Records Laws and OHA’s Hidden LLCs: Why Plead Guilty to Stealing $14M?
• $354,134.92 paid to McCorriston Miller.
• $254,568.76 paid to Alston Hunt.
• $1,069,506.80 paid to Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.

Over $3.7M to Banks

• $3,378,987.16 paid to Bank of Hawaii. (See: Surprise: Entire OHA Trust Fund Frozen by Gentry Pacific Boondoggle)
• $402,901.39 paid to First Hawaiian.

Background: Full Text: After Two Months, OHA Coughs up Check Register (Previous years OHA check registers.)