Ethics

We hope that the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General will be moved to mount a comprehensive fiscal and engineering audit of Honolulu rail ....

... this week, the rail board cancelled a special audit designed to show taxpayers why the costs have ballooned so high ....

...None of the 65 Special Funds proposed in the 2017 Legislative session met criteria....

The Department of Health, which administers the Program, has been aware of this flawed payment system since 2006 but has done little to address it....

...The County Finance Director’s travel was presumed to be to attend an Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Nashville, TN, relating to “bribery and corruption”....

Beneficiaries are calling for higher levels of transparency and accountability....

...The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Independent Audit Hasn't Even Started Yet & Already Someone Has Been Caught....

Civil Beat June 5, 2016: "Not all anonymous sources are created equal. Some do benefit you, and those should be protected...."

...fifteen senators wanted to stick their thumbs in the Governor’s eye....

Guess who owns Makaweli poi mill now?

Plaintiff Mililani Trask, a former OHA trustee, does not have the legal standing to sue Apo, First Circuit Court Judge Dean Ochiai ruled....

The State Attorney General Steps In and ....

...If there is a position taken by a committee chair on one bill or one issue that is not reflecting the wishes of the committee, why can't the committee simply reject the chair's recommendation?....

My testimony today focuses on what I perceive to be OHA’s misuse of wholly owned LLC subsidiaries to avoid laws applicable to OHA and OHA trustees.....

...the SOQ will allow OHA to engage an auditor or auditing firm to conduct an examination of not only OHA but its subsidiary LLCs, for a period reaching back five years....

...Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Are Afraid Of You....

...employees in Hawaii didn’t process cancellations representing about 40 percent of total orders in Hawaii between May 2015-October 2015....

RM #17-06 is both the authorization to retain an auditor to perform the independent audit of OHA, and is the final approval for funding of the audit itself....

Thursday at 6 p.m. at Windward Community College in Kāneʻohe....

...Hawaiiʻs Attorney General Had No Choice But To Start A Criminal Probe....

...we ask that the Commission pose the following ten questions to all candidates for the position....

OHA tries to co-opt any aloha `āina, Mauna Kea and Independence events every time....

Hawaii's AG joins other states asking the federal government for a policy change that would allow the states greater flexibility to investigate Medicaid fraud....

...40% of the organic food sold in America tested positive for prohibited pesticide residue....

Someone Wants To Stack The Deck Against You ....

...OHA Gets An F Grade For Not Telling You How It Spends Your Money....

Multiple procurement violations underlie a secret $435,000 contract between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and a company owned by UH Law Professor Kamana Beamer.....

"...Kaiama, with reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity of the allegation, accused the presiding Judge of committing war crimes under international Conventions, and thereby filed a frivolous document that served no legal or practical purpose...."

...The May 1, 2017 decision by Judge Jeffrey P. Crabtree has been posted to OIP’s website....

State Senate asks OHA to convene a group of Hawaiian leaders, legal scholars, and Hawaiian community members to review whether it’d be better to appoint OHA Trustees rather than elect them....

...this audit seeks to identify areas of “waste, abuse and fraud...”

...re-writing the rules....

OHA Edited That Part Of The Meeting Video Out Before They Later Posted It Online....

...HB165 (now headed to a Conference Committee) would modernize the existing Sunshine Law by requiring electronic posting of public agency meeting notices and minutes and making board packets available for public inspection....

2015: State Sues Tech Firm for Buying Influence with Abercrombie Administration....

...attorneys representing Abigail Kawananakoa effectively debunk arguments used by the LLC lawyer Kimberly Greeley in opposition to an earlier open records request--which is still pending--from Hawai'i Free Press....

...Trying To Get Their Hands On Your Beneficiary Funds....

...the Star-Adv omits any reference to “Hanapohaku Project Manager Linda Schatz”, also known as Mrs Brian Schatz....

...and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ponied up $500K buying Kamanao Crabbe the chance to MC the event....

When first introduced, HB1518 put forth a very worrisome proposal....

...A Grab For Money & Power....

Don’t worry: You can trust the Feds and Silicon Valley with your ‘medical’ marijuana records—unless you annoy them in some way....

Most recently, Biggs developed a series of lectures for the University of Hawai‘i Shidler School of Business and Hawai‘i Pacific University providing an overview of local banks and the Hawai‘i banking market....

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is accepting community input through March 31...

...Two Strategies That Could Compromise The Audit & Who Might Want That To Happen....

On February 24, AP reporters Vivian Salama and Alicia Caldwell published an AP “exclusive”: “DHS report disputes threat from banned nations.”....

...DHHL granted an exclusive license “in perpetuity” to Criminal Al Hee.  Now he's in prison....

...Trustee Keli‘i Akina appointed to chair audit committee....