OHA Check Register 2022--Insiders Rake in $1.2M for Kakaako Makai Lobbying

By Andrew Walden @ 11:29 PM :: 8199 Views

by Andrew Walden

Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2021-22 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request.

The register shows 1,653 checks totaling $32,771,019.05--a spending decrease of $2.38M from last year.

View the check register here:

XCL: 2021-22 Check Register
PDF: 2021-22 Check Register

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

Number One on the Hit Parade -- Kuilei Consulting, Inc -- Karl Veto Baker: $1,199,275.57 to funnel money to insiders for promoting OHA’s Kakaako Makai development schemes. Incorporated April 2, 2021, Kuilei started receiving OHA money with four checks totalling $160,157.00 dated January 6, 2022. READ: “Dead Bodies, Convicted Felons and Kakaako Makai: Meet the new Gang at OHA.” NOTE: $1,199,275.57 is the total for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022. Funding for this year’s Kakaako Makai lobbying effort is likely not included.

Here is the breakdown:

$2.1M -- Lobbyists, PR, Kakaako Makai

$1,199,275.57 Kuilei Consulting, Inc -- Karl Veto Baker funnels money to insiders for promoting OHA’s Kakaako Makai development schemes. READ: “Dead Bodies, Convicted Felons and Kakaako Makai: Meet the new Gang at OHA.”
$174,638.75 Kalaimoku Group / John Aeto (advertising)
$362,093.52 paid to Broken Trust DC Lobbyists Marsh USA Inc.
$135,019.73 Solutions Pacific (Ray Soon)
$184,084.04 Oahu Publications, Inc (Publishes Star-Adv)

Robin Danner Etal -- $262,515.41 (down from $576K last year and $977K year before)

CNHA -- $96,279.21 (down from $270K last year and $800K year before) Oct 2022: Dirty OHA Contract is Model for CNHA Takeover of Tourism Marketing
Homestead Community Development Corp $106,039.04 -- (down from $217K)
Edith Kanakaole Foundation -- $60,197.16 -- (down from $88K)

Interesting Factoid: With $977K as a baseline, Danner’s schemes have lost a total of $1.029M over the last two years. This is very close to the $1.199M scooped up by Kuilei Consulting. Does OHA have a fixed budget line-item dedicated to grease insiders?

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

$7,902.43 Access Information Management (shredding service)
$6,420.15 CDW GOVERNMENT, INC. (network solutions)
$31,449.60 CHERRYROAD TECHNOLOGIES INC. (systems integration and consulting services)
$65,000.00 DATAHOUSE (consulting)
$109,289.00 DL CONSULTING LIMITED (Veridian software, NZ)
$148,245.87 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.”
$7,172.88 FOUNDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
$65,100.00 Ohanasoft, LLC (Oracle Consultant Joon Kwok)
$91,504.72 Oracle America, Inc
$50,000.00 Orrick, Harrington (investment consultants)
$4,860.00 PBR Hawaii (planning)
$18,433.80 QUEST SOFTWARE INC
$75,273.12 RUNNING LOGISTICS LLC
$70,611.51 SEGAL ADVISORS, INC. (investment consultants)
$86,514.37 SHI INTERNATIONAL CORP (Software House Int’l)
$12,500.00 Supporting the Language of Kauai, Inc (For OHA Insider Cash Bonanza Comes with Poi Mill)
$11,931.73 The SystemCenter, Inc
$23,390.03 THOUGHTFOCUS, Inc
$74,999.80 TMB CONSULTING CORP.
$19,477.80 Wilson Okamoto Co. (engineering and planning)
$70,029.28 World Wide Technology, Inc
$3,280.22 WPEngine, Inc
$54,925.28 Xerox Corp
$33,785.41 ZR Systems Group, LLC (computer consultants)

$2.1M to Lawyers (NHLC and McCorriston big winners)

$172,090.63 to Klein Law Group LLLC (see: OHA Sacrifices $3.2M to Hide Lawyer’s Conflict of Interest?)
$52,985.34 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?
$25,912.90 to Cades Schutte
$19,537.09 to Sherry Broder ESQ
$15,394.57 to Kaneohe Lawyer LLLC
$1,089.15 Ogawa, Lau, Nakamura & Jew
$655,867.45 paid to McCorriston Miller.
$122,739.59 paid to Dentons (formerly Alston Hunt).
$1,048,800.00 paid to Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.

Over $1.9M to Banks

$116,532.43 paid to Bank of America.
$1,721,088.03 paid to Bank of Hawaii.
$82,960.89 paid to First Hawaiian.

Other Highlights found by searching the register include

$493,853.18 paid to Kanu o Ka Aina Learning Ohana and another $114,125.50 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”
$55,863.50 to Kipuka O Ke Ola (5 Mountains) – Bob Lindsey on Board
$1,721,088.03 paid to Bank of Hawaii (See: Surprise: Entire OHA Trust Fund Frozen by Gentry Pacific Boondoggle)
$3,000,000 to DHHL (OHA in 2009 promised to give DHHL $3M per year for 30 yrs)
$48,290.28 paid to OHA’s Hi’ilei Aloha, 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
$740,893.54 paid to University of Hawaii
$13,565,948.55 paid to Director of Finance and $1,567,471.34 paid to OHA (payroll)
$60,877.15 to Ann Sexton, OHA DC Office Manager
$25,349.88 to Alu Like
$41,126.00 to US Department of the Interior
$6,705.50 to Chem-Toi -- (telescope protests?)

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