OHA Check Register: Complete List of Who Gets Paid FY2020-21

By Andrew Walden @ 8:38 PM :: 6004 Views

by Andrew Walden

Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2020-21 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request.

The register shows 1,592 checks totaling $35,149,127.48--a spending increase of $14M from last year.

View the check register here:

This is the second 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

$1,153,691.25 paid to Kanu o Ka Aina Learning Ohana and another $93,529.50 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”
$12,588.00 to Kipuka O Ke Ola (5 Mountains) – Bob Lindsey on Board
$3,041,579.18 paid to Bank of Hawaii -- up from $1.6M – (See: Surprise: Entire OHA Trust Fund Frozen by Gentry Pacific Boondoggle)
$105,833.28 paid to First Hawaiian Bank
$3,004,360.33 to DHHL (OHA in 2009 promised to give DHHL $3M per year for 30 yrs)
$264,387.80 paid to OHA’s LLCs. $205,420.80 to Hi’ilei Aloha and $58,967.00 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
$59,465.42 SPIRE HAWAII LLP (down from $149K) See: Financial Services: OHA Spire Contract Balloons 760% in Two Years
$817,196.15 paid to University of Hawaii (up from $115K)
$14,206,950.77 paid to Director of Finance (up from $8.9M) and $1,817,377.01 paid to OHA (payroll—up from $633K)
$74,772.24 to Ann Sexton, OHA DC Office Manager
$42,777.56 to Alu Like
$13,161.50 to US DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

Robin Danner Etal -- $576,307.81 (down from $977K)

$1.9M -- Consultants, Computer Software, Engineering, Training and Marketing (up $700K)

$18,000.00 paid to 4 MILES LLC (Dawn Kaniaupio and Ruben Carrillo, filmmakers)
$10,647.37 Access Information Management (shredding service)
$14,1157.66 CDW GOVERNMENT, INC. (network solutions)
$31,449.60 CHERRYROAD TECHNOLOGIES INC. (systems integration and consulting services)
$240,531.60 DATAHOUSE (consulting)
$72,568.00 DL CONSULTING LIMITED (Veridian software, NZ)
$247,710.92 paid to Forest Solutions, LLC -- up from $75K (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.”
$8,621.25 FOUNDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
$96,704.46 Kalaimoku Group / John Aeto (advertising)
$152.27 LEIDOS DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, INC. (down from $12K)
$30,690.00 MANA'OLANA INTERNATIONAL, LLC (NOT IN GOOD STANDING -- business consulting)
$342,487.65 paid to Broken Trust DC Lobbyists Marsh USA Inc.
$201,080.02 Oahu Publications, Inc (Publishes Star-Adv)
$17,603.55 QUEST SOFTWARE INC
$28,238.19 RUNNING LOGISTICS LLC
$66,125.00 SEGAL ADVISORS, INC.
$99,837.66 SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP (Software House Int’l)
$130,495.58 Solutions Pacific (Ray Soon)
$8,894.27 Systemmetrics Corp (Consulting--many insiders)
$13,553.14 The SystemCenter, Inc
$59,888.95 THOUGHTFOCUS, INC
$83,056.39 TMB CONSULTING CORP.
$59,470.20 Wilson Okamoto Co. (engineering and planning)
$24,371.87 ZR Systems Group, LLC (computer consultants)

1.9M to Lawyers (NHLC up $500K)

$245,250.71 to Klein Law Group LLLC (up from $172K-- see: OHA Sacrifices $3.2M to Hide Lawyer’s Conflict of Interest?)
$134,406.43 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?
$2,702.09 Cades Schutte
$16,144.85 Ogawa, Lau, Nakamura & Jew
$47,690.00 paid to McCorriston Miller.
$191,789.07 paid to Dentons (formerly Alston Hunt).
$1,298,800.00 paid to Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. (up from $786K)

Over $1.8M to Banks (down sharply)

Contractors on 2019-20 check register no longer being paid:

Awareness Technologies, Inc (for software used to spy on OHA internal email and computer use)
AVG TECHNOLOGIES USA, LLC (security software)
AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC. (consulting & civil engineering)
DTL / WCIT See: “Ethics Complaint: OHA Insiders Take Kickbacks from Kakaako Makai Projects” and “OHA to Take Over Honolulu Council?”
Hawaii Johns, Inc. (telescope protest)
KEALOPIKO INC (for profit fashion design firm)
Kinzamora, LLC (for profit fashion design firm)
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION GROUP
USIQ INC

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