2012-08-08 Board of Ethics minutes

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Board members could see deprivation of rights. The Prosecutor’s Office conspires with them, and now we have a situation where people recuse themselves because of friendships. On Monday night he testified from this very seat, and he found himself in the newspaper. In today’s paper there is another article about Roger Christie. He would like to present the possible situation of money laundering that the County of Hawai‘i Police Department is engaged in. The Board of Ethics is a sworn board to take testimony and subpoena and is also under the control, either through political, personal, or bowling team memberships, and will not expose the corruption or do their sworn duties. He proposes that the corruption goes so far as to use the County of Hawai‘i to launder illegal drug operations, and that Chair Dill is personally involved in the extortion and secrecy. Nobody challenges him. There are extortion charges on file with the Prosecutor’s Office against Mayor Kenoi and Lincoln Ashida. He was called into the Police Department and interrogated. He has put before the County Council a request for a federal and state investigation, and he will also be forwarding to the Council a resolution requesting the dissolving of the Board of Ethics for acts of deprivation of rights under color of the law and conspiracy. IKE PAYNE: Mr. Payne said he filed a formal complaint with the Ombudsman’s Office about the recusal of two of the Board members and asked for a letter of recommendation. The recusals were based on friendship and nothing more. He also received a copy of the minutes from the last meeting, and they have been passed on to the Ombudsman’s Office, along with YouTube videos showing the members’ recusals and reasons. He is asking for the resignation of Board members David Heaukulani and Glen Hisashima. KATARINA CULINA: Ms. Culina expressed her support for Petition 2012-01 and urged the Board to investigate Donald Ikeda and Dennis Onishi regarding their public attendance and voting record. They are here to represent the public. If they do not attend hearings, they will not know what the public wants. They need to remember who is paying them, unless someone else is paying them. It is the public paying them to protect the public and to listen to their needs. The facts exist on how often they attend and how often they vote. She urged the Board to look at the facts. PALIKAPU DEDMAN: Mr. Dedman said he was following up from the last meeting, when two members recused themselves. The sad thing was that the Board couldn’t come up with a decision that day. The same complaints were being raised then, which turned out to be key factors in the voting a couple of weeks later. He thought that if you have a complaint, you had to be released from that complaint before participating in the very thing complained about. The issue has nothing to do about asking if you have friendships with people. It has to do with the way you carry yourself ethically. It has nothing to do with money or community projects, but how you carry yourself using taxpayers’ money. They’re earning his tax dollars. Then there is the Board of Ethics, which doesn’t carry itself professionally. He doesn’t know how they get appointed, but it seems that everybody knows everybody, because they keep using friendship as a reason for not participating or making decisions on what’s right and wrong. It has nothing to do with friendship. And if a person is using friendship as an excuse, that means they would rule in favor if they’re guilty. That’s all it tells him. The Board of Ethics does not even have good rules of ethics for themselves, as to how to carry themselves. The Board is just as bad as the situation in the complaint. Then you have people, how they’re elected, that have their