OHA Check Register: First Year After Crabbe--Insiders Still Rake in Millions

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OHA Check Register: First Year After Crabbe--Insiders Still Rake in Millions
By Andrew Walden @ 4:03 AM :: 5366 Views :: Ethics, OHA

by Andrew Walden

Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request.

The register shows 1,262 checks totaling $21,085,583.58.

View the check register here:

XCL: 2019-20 Check Register
PDF: 2019-20 Check Register

This is the first fiscal year after the departure of former OHA CEO Kamana’o Crabbe. Is the cash still flowing to insiders? See for yourself:

Highlights found by searching the register include

$1,358,822.50 paid to Kanu o Ka Aina Learning Ohana and another $62,352 paid to Kanu o Ka Aina PCS. Outgoing OHA Trustee Bob Lindsey formerly member of Board. Flashback: “OHA Chair’s Charter School Gets Seven Times More Than All Other Charters Combined”
$28,212.00 to Kipuka O Ke Ola (5 Mountains) – Bob Lindsey on Board
$1,665,990.32 paid to Bank of Hawaii – (See: Surprise: Entire OHA Trust Fund Frozen by Gentry Pacific Boondoggle)
$174,094.99 paid to First Hawaiian Bank
$750,050.70 to DHHL (OHA in 2009 promised to give DHHL $3M per year for 30 yrs)
$277,293 paid to OHA’s LLCs. $189,293.00 to Hi’ilei Aloha and $88,000.00 to 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
$149,501.25 SPIRE HAWAII LLP See: Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years
$115,982.35 paid to University of Hawaii
$8,915,796.60 paid to Director of Finance and $633,226.22 paid to OHA (payroll—down sharply)
$ 44,341.20 to Ann Sexton, OHA DC Office Manager
$22,612.50 KEALOPIKO INC (for profit fashion design firm)
$8,373.40 to Kinzamora, LLC (for profit fashion design firm)

Robin Danner Etal -- $977,660.71

CNHA -- $807,223.42 (up, up, up)
Homestead Community Development -- $156,199.95
Edith Kanakaole Foundation -- $14,237.34

$1.2M -- Consultants, Computer Software, Training and Marketing

$20,487.20 paid to Awareness Technologies, Inc (for software used to spy on OHA internal email and computer use)
$4,396.75 Access Information Management (shredding service)
$9,226.31 AVG TECHNOLOGIES USA, LLC (security software)
$18,400.00 AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC. (consulting & civil engineering)
$13,873.33 CDW GOVERNMENT, INC. (network solutions)
$20,966.34 CHERRYROAD TECHNOLOGIES INC. (systems integration and consulting services)
$125,349.41 DATAHOUSE (consulting)
$42,200.00 DL CONSULTING LIMITED (Veridian software, NZ)
DTL -- $8,770.79 (sharply down and no money to WCIT) See: “Ethics Complaint: OHA Insiders Take Kickbacks from Kakaako Makai Projects” and “OHA to Take Over Honolulu Council?”
$75,034.10 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.” Also -- $17,403 to Hawaii Forest Institute.
$8,360.00 FOUNDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
$115,937.54 Kalaimoku Group / John Aeto (advertising)
$12,190.60 LEIDOS DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, INC.
$77,439.98 MANA'OLANA INTERNATIONAL, LLC (business consulting)
$2,500.00 paid to Broken Trust DC Lobbyists Marsh USA Inc. (down sharply from previous years)
$108,437.87 Oahu Publications, Inc June 12, 2020 one check (Publishes Star-Adv)
$20,135.88 QUEST SOFTWARE INC
$62,740.16 RUNNING LOGISTICS LLC
$54,000.00 SEGAL ADVISORS, INC.
$19,795.52 SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP (Software House Int’l)
$175,281.28 Solutions Pacific (Ray Soon)
$5,738.84 Systemmetrics Corp (Consulting--many insiders, sharply down from previous years)
$2,403.45 TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION GROUP
$23,219.90 THOUGHTFOCUS, INC
$27,654.96 TMB CONSULTING CORP.
$1,527.22 USIQ INC
$117,735.54 -- ZR Systems Group, LLC (computer consultants)

$1.4M to Lawyers (down sharply)

$172,667.28 to Klein Law Group LLLC
$145,590.87 to ES&A, INC which, among other things, in the past defended 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?
$2,172.50 Cades Schutte
$7,082.47 Ogawa, Lau, Nakamura & Jew
$94,222.60 paid to McCorriston Miller.
$190,553.12 paid to Dentons (formerly Alston Hunt).
$786,800.00 paid to Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.

Over $1.8M to Banks (down sharply)

$1,665,990.32 paid to Bank of Hawaii.
$174,094.99 paid to First Hawaiian.

Telescope Protest?

$41,110.43 to Hawaii Johns, Inc.

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