2009-06-10 Board of Ethics Minutes

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COLE: Yes, my name is Dan Cole. CHAIR: And to clarify, your public statement is dealing with the clarification of the April 8rh minutes? COLE: Um hmm. CHAIR: Okay. Well, we haven't approved them yet, so go ahead and it's next on the agenda. Why don't you discuss exactly what COLE: I'll keep this brief. I assume you've all gotten a copy of the letter from Senator Daniel Inouye 's office CHAIR: - -Yes COLE: - -where he referred information and correspondence to the Attorney General Eric Holder about the corruption in the governments of Hawai `i. CHAIR: Hold on, did everybody get that, all Board members? L UM.• For his comment on your concerns. It reads I have forwarded a copy of your correspondence to the office of the attorney general, Eric Holder, for his comments on your, Dan Cole's, concerns. I will share with you any response I receive. Just to be clear about what that should say. COLE: Well, I thank the Vice Chairman for reading that into the record. L UM: Thank you. COLE: Approval of statements and approval of minutes, as I was limited during my statements in April the 8`h, I wish to submit these supporting documents in support of the statements that the agents of the County and State of Hawai `i have threatened and attempted to intimidate me from bringing forth evidence of organized government corruption and to the acts and actions of judicial misconduct of state district court judges Metcalf and Smith. So submitted. I also wish to speak on the Section S, New Business, of the Sunshine Law. Please be advised that the obscuring of the names of the petitioner and of the alleged County officials is in violation of the letter and intent of the Sunshine Law as codified CHAIR: - -Wait, hold on a second. Sorry, where were you referring to? What section and COLE: -- Statements from the public on agenda items, Section S, Sunshine Law, New Business. CHAIR: Hold on a second. COLE: There's a Sunshine Law.