2011-02-09 Board of Ethics Minutes

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10:08 a.m.: The Board left Regular Session 10:25 a.m.: The Board returned to Regular Session. DILL: Mr. Cole, I apologize. Why don't we go back to item number 2, and if you so desire, you can please come up and continue your testimony for the remaining 15 minutes relating to the petition items you stated on your yellow form. My apologies, sir. COLE: Let's try this again. I continue on the history portion of why I'm here and the basic background of extensive racketeering and other conspiracies against the rights of individuals and against deprivation of rights under the color of law. History. In 2001, Hawai `i County Public Works officials authorized and supervised the alteration of stream beds in Hilo, Hawaii, of tributaries of streams flowing into navigable waters of the United States, where it is alleged that these illegal alterations were performed to provide flood protection for the benefit of politically connected landowners at the expense of property owners downstream. This construction of illegal stream diversion works for flood protection was paid for with federal emergency disaster benefits from the major flooding event in 2000 in Hilo, Hawai `i. Therefore, it's a violation of federal law, 1040 of the Title 18, and is subject to a 30 year federal prison term. Assenting in silence. I know in the culture here, if you say nothing or do nothing, people believe you have no can do no wrong. However, the accusations made in thousands and thousands of pages of testimony to public officials, in taking no action, they therefore agree to the veracity and truthfulness of the allegations stated and therefore the allegations are now stated as factual. Assenting in silence, the County does not deny that these stream diversion works were constructed under its authorization and supervision to provide flood protection for the land and property development of politically influential people, and the FEMA flood insurance rate maps were corrupted to hide potential flood risks to benefit these political influential landowners. The County of Hawai `i states that these alterations were not permitted, not documented, and not authorized by the United States Congress as required bylaw, nor authorized or permitted by state laws. The County states that over 4,000 cubic yards of flood debris was used to the construction of the non permitted, non - documented stream diversion works. Even though this amount of material would build a wall nine feet high, one foot thick, from this Hawaii County Council meeting room to the main terminal of the Hilo International Airport, the County of Hawai `i states it has no idea where this material was used to construct the stream diversion works it built. The alteration of the Hilo stream beds, under the authorization and supervision of the Public Works Department resulted in millions of dollars in property damage from the flooding event of 2008, and the continuous blocking of areas of the Hilo Harbor with silt. In 2004 the information that the County of Hawai `i had violated state and federal laws in altering the streams Hilo streams and the illegal dumping or disposal of thousands of cubic yards of flood debris, paid for under federal emergency benefit contract, has created a multi - million criminal and civil risk liability to the County of Hawai `i, to which is required by securities and exchange laws and rules to be disclosed in any offering of general munici obligation municipal bonds by this County. Because the County of Hawai `i has admitted that it illegally altered Hilo stream beds in violation of state and 11