Ethics

...provide greater clarity to various provisions of the State Ethics Code, HRS chapter 84 (including but not limited to the gifts law, gifts reporting law, fair treatment law, and conflicts of interests law); and various provisions of the Lobbyists law, HRS chapter 97 (including but not limited to reporting and registration requirements for lobbyists)....

...Hui Chen is a member of the Complex Litigation, Fraud, and Compliance Unit, and will be tasked with investigating, reviewing, and consulting on compliance issues within state government....

...concealed from Koyo the fact that one of its upper level managers was an owner of the sham pass-through companies....

...These are the kind of people who make Hawaii what it is today....

...Your recycling was shipped to Asia and then they dumped it into the ocean because recycling is and always has been a fraud.  Now it is washing up on our beaches and enviro lawyers are using it as an excuse to enhance their power....

...The Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs is set to hear SB42 SD1 today at 1:19pm....

...UPDATE: Its Navatek...

...FAA bosses twice denied him travel authorizations to visit the helicopter company, making it next to impossible to perform adequate FAA oversight....

...The way OHA has responded to recent events has affected its credibility in the eyes of Hawai’i’s lawmakers and OHA’s own Hawaiian beneficiaries....

...Winslett further admitted that he accepted $723,333.33 in kickbacks from a local subcontractor....

...Nathan Lum was the former division director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, Longshore Division (ILWU)....

...What does a drunk rave promoter know about aviation fuel anyway?....

...The State’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget for FY2019 was $2.02 billion....

... Occupational Health Branch Manager for HIOSH takes new hires shopping for used cars ....

...This deserves an answer....

...it probably costs more to pay the lawyers than to build the lockerroom....

...U.S. air-safety regulators likely acted improperly in the way they authorized Southwest Airlines Co. to begin flights between California and Hawaii last year....

...the Hawaii State Senate’s new Anti-Harassment Policy....

...DBEDT had non-general funds with balances totaling $5.75 million and administratively created non-general funds with balances totaling more than $750,000 that were not reported to the 2019 Legislature as required by HRS....

...Common Cause Hawaii will be holding a meeting about the 2020 Hawaii State Legislative Session on Saturday, January 25....

...“Inspiring Nationally Vibrant Economies Sustaining Tribes (INVEST) Act"....

...This week, the Honolulu Police Commission ousted vocal Kealoha critic, Loretta Sheehan, from her Chair position. Additionally, it was reported that the Federal Public Defender for 24 years, Peter Wolff, who originally exposed the crimes of former City Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha and former Chief of Police Louis Kealoha, will also be ousted from his job....

...an ineffective communications system that sometimes prevents riders from making reservations, drops calls, and does not record voicemail complaints....

...The New Year's Barely Started & There's Already A Cover-Up at OHA....

... The lawsuit could have far broader implications for the AG’s office given the large number of national cases the Hawaii AG’s office involves itself in.  How many of those cases are driven by the profit interest of private law firms? ....

...We at Hawai’i Free Press only needed 30 minutes to write this point-by-point rebuttal.  Yes.  It is that easy....

...from 2014 to 2019, Tong used an alias to act as property manager and landlord for five properties she rented to Section 8 voucher holders....

...Former OHA CEO Kamana’o Crabbe is gone and OHA claims Crabbe’s departure shows the agency is cleaning up.  But the Board lawyer who signed off on everything is still in place....

...ensuring that four members of both the Land Use Commission and the Board of Land and Natural Resources are selected from lists submitted to the Governor by OHA....

...OHA Trustees Machado, Lee Admit Refusing to Provide Unredacted Minutes to Auditor....

...Watch This For A Quick Run-Down & Where You Can See It For Yourself....

...There are serious questions which must now be answered....

... Respondents reported a monthly charge of $14.65 to Netflix on 6/19/18, 7/17/18, and 8/17/18 for “online research” ....

...8 contributors who each gave the $6,000 maximum amount to Respondent, also gave to another candidate committee.  However, Respondent reported that these 8 contributors had Hawaii addresses while the other candidate committee reported that these 8 contributors had out-of-state addresses....

...the following 7 bills have been drafted for the Commission’s consideration for the 2020 Legislative Session....

..."Failing States" do not meet even basic standards of online spending transparency for economic development subsidies....

"...He's the only one that got the forensic audit done...."

...The Supreme Court of Hawaii will take over the Common Cause / League of Women Voters' gut-n-replace appeal. The transfer order was filed today....

...the museum did quite a bit more work at Kaleloa Airport than just display airplanes....

...Pereira’s last day at Honolulu Hale will be Tuesday, Dec. 31....

...OIP deconstructs OHA insiders’ latest gambit in their flagging attempt to silence dissident Trustee Keli’i Akina....

...the name game is at the heart of the Legislature’s practice of “gut and replace"....

...Here's the motion we filed today....

"...Unfortunately, these anti-vaxx people all live overseas, but they’re using social media to influence our population and our community. What can the government do? We’re not wasting time with those people....”

...The cooperative agreement between the zoo and the Zoo Society hampered roles and responsibilities.... 

...Are there other items fraudulently deleted from the check registers?....

...sometimes you wonder who edits articles in the newspaper....

...Responding to questions about OHA Trustee Chair Colette Machado’s imaginary “OIP Opinion”....

...This is the Commission’s first such plan and the culmination of three years of public meeting discussions, development and drafting, and outreach to stakeholders.... 

"...As the sample was judgmentally selected, it is inappropriate to extrapolate sample results across all OHA contracts and disbursements during the review period...." -- OHA