2010-07-14 Board of Ethics Minutes

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Act, so that the county cannot act in any way that would cause the Kanaka, the Hawaiian, to diminish. And so that illegal transfer and theft of Hawaiian land, forced removal of original inhabitants from their land by the county is unethical, and they have inherited these properties in lieu of tax payments and even the quitclaim that was done that process was also an illegal process. So the county is in possession of stolen property and needs to follow through as to what is the most ethical procedures and protocols that you can, and that under federal monies coming into the county, it is a federal undertaking. And so consultation with the native Hawaiians, also under Ordinance 08 -42, for a certified local government, is crucial in this matter here. And I encourage you to work with the Kanaka Maoli on this issue, and also Queen Lili `uokalani Trust and lineal and collateral heirs of Lili `uokalani. Thank you. CHAIR: Thank you. Up next, Albert Haa, Jr. HAA: Good morning, my name is Albert Kahiwahiaokalani Haa, Jr. I'm kind of sad that I have to come today and talk about ethics against a Hawaiian mayor who is family. I hate to put down other Hawaiians in any way, but I'll try to make my thing brief. I feel it's very unethical when I try to make appointments to contact the mayor with no results or no response. My first time that I went into his office to see his secretary was at the first Hdmdkua land meeting, and I think it's about the time when he went to the mainland to see Obama get sworn in. However, I still feel it's very unethical, because my purpose was to try and protect the county because the information that I have could be detrimental to the state and the county, and I was looking at ways to remedy or communicate with the mayor personally with my issue. However, it ends up where I'm here today at the Ethics Board, complaining about ethics. I still would like to talk to the mayor personally. I'm saddened that he's not here. My other complaint is, I keep talking about probate 463 in every one of those county meetings, and when the Corporation Counsel looks over everything, they do not even mention anything about my probate. They don't mention anything about no king's signature, no king's stamp, queen's signature 's crossed out. It appears to me that they are just supporting Title Guaranty, whom I feel are criminals. And if the mayor is going to take his advice from criminals, how more unethical can that be? It's very obvious when you look at the paperwork, the numerous discrepancies on it. And they claim to have the title transfers from 1848, but none of them show my tutu's signature or the king's stamp. They're all fraud documents. They have board or commissioner's stamps on them. They don't even comply to volume one of the Hawai `i state laws. So I feel it's a crime and that if the mayor's going to run this county properly, he should look into it and make sure that he's not being misled by corporate thieves. Also, I had an example, and this was given to me by Corporation Counsel. It's in regards to property, personal property. What happened to mein 2009 is my boat got stolen and we went through this whole thing. But what Corporation comes out saying, after this theft report of my boat, it says it appears that the boat was fraudulently transferred to bla- bla -bla, and generally the law is well settled that against the true owner, all other claims are invalid. They give me this in regards to the old bust up boat that I got stolen, but when it comes to my tutu's land and assets, Corp Counsel completely ignores what I'm talking about. So what I'm saying is I think the mayor should even check on his Corporation Counsel people, because they're just putting lies over lies, covering up a theft that had happened years ago. But a theft is a theft. And I just wanted to make things pono. I wanted to have this talk to the mayor, maybe he