Ethics

...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....

...153 employees received $1.7 million in overtime for bulky and white goods collection....

...Please send your comments on the draft strategic plan by September 1, 2017....

...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....

The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....

“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."

...Mahalo for helping this idea to catch on....

...Cliff Slater told the HART board that “everything should come up on the table, as John Henry Felix is calling for.”....

...Telescope: For OHA, it’s all About the Rent Money....

... If the funding of rail was all that was on the table it would be simple....

...Trump allegedly reviewed the Fox story before it was published on May 16....

...“a criminal probe is now underway on a lucrative, non-bid contract issued by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs”....

What does it say about the state of governance in Hawaii that endorsing basic standards of fiscal responsibility is a revolutionary act?

...Section 8 does not have a formal fraud program although, as of FY 2016, the program's delinquent accounts receivables totaled approximately $1.5 million....

...government may not be able to fund nonprofits that are not closely aligned to current government responsibilities....

...VIDEO: Grassroot Institute writer discusses audit of rail fiasco....

...LaBarre will be sentenced on October 23, 2017....

...Full Text: Letter to HART Boardmembers, Mayor and County Councilmembers from John Henry Felix....

... HART's current cost overrun is 93.4%, of which 1% is due to the two lawsuits ....

...City officials were accused of certifying financial statements in 2002 and 2003 that were false because they failed to disclose that the city was purposely underfunding....

...plan of proposed audits for FY2017-18....

...HART stunned critics by cancelling a special audit that would have examined past cost overruns....

...The shift out of DOTax is just a scam to justify vetoing HB1414 which mandated an audit of the State's decade-long series of IT debacles....

“It’s not my intent to muck around in the past.”

...a number of allegedly flagrant violations of the law including the following....

Another step towards dismantlement of Dan Inouye's legacy....

...‘We made a screwy stupid decision back then.’ And I think going forward, that’s what I would like to do, unless there’s some critical issue where we suspect there’s like fraud or embezzlement or something....

“Crucial Recommendations for Achieving Fiscal Sustainability”

...One Labels Calls For Truth & Transparency A Witch Hunt. -- The Other Trustee Asks Beneficiaries To Participate & Speak Out Even More....

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....