2013-01-09 Board of Ethics minutes

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family history of CIA covert operations. These documents are government records obtained from the Corporation Counsel and verified as to accuracy three times by the Corporation Counsel. My last item of public statements is on the executive session for Colleen Schrandt--I believe that's her name--legislative auditor. It will be noted in the testimony that I had requested on January the 3rd of my County Council representative, Gregor Ilagan, for a legislative audit of the Hawaii County Finance Department and the Mayor's Office, in regards to the issue of these bonds identified within the document. In a letter by Nancy Cook-Lauer dated Tuesday, January the 8th, 2013, County legislative auditor Colleen Schrandt has left Hawaii to take a job as an auditor with the United Nations in New York City. Asked what she would have liked to have accomplished during her tenure, Schrandt admitted to a long list. Most important for the County, Schrandt said, would be stronger whistle blower protection so the people would be less hesitant to come forthwith reports of waste and fraud in our governments. You've all noticed the numerous documentations that I have verified that the Hawaii County Police Department, on numerous occasions, in conspiracy against rights, in deprivation of rights under the color of law, has deprived me, the people, of filing a complaint in violation of extortion laws of state and federal codes, in violation of deprivation of rights, in violation of bank fraud. And I have been denied all these times. Where's the protection? That's why I'm bringing forth this information, because if you actually look at the petition I filed, the petition states, state the nature of your interest, including the reasons for the submission of the petition to expose organized public corruption in Hawaii government and to expose the old boy network and the unmentionables that influence, control, and/or extort Hawaii County government employees and officers identified by the top criminal defense attorney in Hilo in the Tribune-Herald article. The documents I got from the mayor in response to this article is erroneous. I am requesting a formal hearing, where sworn statements, subpoenas, and rules of evidence of the Hawaii courts may be used. I will show in statements and testimony that the documents they provided are in fact in violation of the very master issuing certificate, are in violation of the Hawaii tax laws and the tax form that was filed by the County of Hawaii. I look forward to my statements before you on this matter. Mr. Balsis next called up Jerome Warren, who had signed up to testify on two matters. MR. WARREN: The first one goes back to last month's Board of Ethics hearing, which I was attending. And when I left the room, I looked at the official County bulletin board, and the Board of Ethics agenda was improperly posted. It was hiding names on the second page, and these names are familiar to all of us. So whoever posted that did a tremendous favor to the people that were being on trial, so to speak, because a person walking past any bulletin board, when they see something that is familiar when that is in print, it will catch a person's eye, and they'll draw their attention. But the agenda was improperly posted, because the second page was not visible. And I wrote a letter to Office of Information Practices, and I have not received a reply. I wrote a letter I made a call that day from the lobby of this building. They said write a letter. I wrote the letter the next day. I haven't heard anythingfrom OIP. So let's let that one drop, and then I'll get onto my petition, 2012-10. And here's just a subjective view here. I'm titling this, the government must follow its own laws. Here it goes. My first clue regarding the illegal baggage charge was a sign in one of the Hele-On buses. The sign read $1 for a