Woo vs. Harmon - Witness David Black

David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon

(Formerly Woo vs. Harmon & Nicholson vs. Harmon)

U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

DAVID BLACK

Founder and Majority Stockholder of Victoria, British-Columbia-based Black Press, Ltd.; Majority Stockholder and Director, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Honolulu Star-Bulletin
500 Ala Moana Blvd. #7-210
Honolulu, Hi 96813

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November 23, 2005

VIA facsimile @ (808) 529-7177

and e-mail: sguttman@kdubm.com

Mr. Steven Guttman, Esq.

Kessner Duca Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga

220 South King Street, 19^th Floor

Honolulu, HI 96813

RE: CV05-00030 - Mary Lou Woo v. Bobby N. Harmon

Addition of Witness David Black, Chairman, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Dear Mr. Guttman:

Due to the discovery of information which gives further evidence of undisclosed conflicts of interests and obstruction of justice in the referenced case, this is to notify you that I am hereby adding David Black, Chairman of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, as a witness.

You will find additional details in the following Web page:

www.the-catbird-seat.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Black-David.htm

Please contact me if you have any questions, or if Mary Lou Woo, your law firm, and your respective professional liability insurance carriers, should wish to attempt to settle the referenced case through confidential, out-of-court negotiations.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

cc’s: Mark Recktenwald, Director, Dept of Commerce & Consumer Affairs

(via Email: Mark.E.Recktenwald@dcca.hawaii.gov)

Governor Linda Lingle, State of Hawaii (via fax: 808-586-0006)

Lt. Governor James R. Aiona, Jr. (via fax: 808-586-0231 and Email: ltgov@hawaii.gov)

Ted Liu, Director, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism

(via fax: 808-586-2377)

J.P. Schmidt, Hawaii Insurance Commissioner (via fax: 808-586-2806)

Craig Watanabe, Insurance Division (via Email: captiveins@dcca.hawaii.gov)

Les Kondo, Director, Office of Information Practices (via Email: oip@hawaii.gov)

Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General (via Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov)

Mark Bennett, Hugh Jones, Dorothy Sellers, and Lawrence Goya,

Office of the Attorney General, c/o Hugh Jones, Deputy Atty. General

(via Email: hugh.r.jones@hawaii.gov)

John Snow, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (via fax: 202-622-6415)

William H. Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission

(via Email: enforcement@sec.gov)

Edward H. Kubo, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice (via fax: 808-541-2958)

Charles L. Goodwin, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Honolulu Office

(via Email: HONOLULU@FBI.GOV)

Janet Hughes, Internal Revenue Service (via fax: 303-844-3596)

Billy Beaver, Pension & Welfare Benefit Admin. (via fax: 626-229-1098)

Council of the County of Maui (via Email: county.clerk@co.maui.hi.us)

Warren Price III, Price Okamoto Himeno & Lum (via fax: 808-533-0549)

Margery Bronster, Esq. (via Email: info@bchlaw.net)

Dee Jay Mailer, CEO, Kamehameha Schools (via fax: 808-523-6313)

Edwina Clarke, President, P&C Insurance Company, c/o Ms. Alison Quinlivan, Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (via Email: alison.quinlivan@marsh.com)

Roy F. Hughes, Esq., Hughes & Taosaka (via Email: hthughes@hawaii.rr.com)

Benjamin Kudo, Imanaka Kudo & Fujimoto (via Email: bkudo@imanakakudo.com)

R. Brian Tsujimura, Imanaka Kudo... (via Email: rtsujimura@imanakakudo.com)

Sanford Murata, Pres., Sanford Murata, Inc., (via Email: smurata@rr.hawaii.com)

William K. Slate II, President/CEO, American Arbitration Association

(via fax: 212-716-5905 and Email: Websitemail@adr.org)

Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Esq., Arbitrator (via Email: Judy@tiki.net)

Jeffrey Case, VP, Aon Risk Services, Inc. (via fax: 808-540-4301)

Terry Mullen, President, John Mullen & Co. (via Email: tmullen@johnmullen.com)

Michael G. Cherkasky, CEO, Marsh & McLennan (via fax: 212-345-4838)

John D. Finnegan, CEO, The Chubb Corporation (via Email: info@chubb.com)

Lissa H. Andrews, Esq., Rush Moore LLP, Attorney for Federal Insurance Co.

(via Email: landrews@rehawaii.com)

Matt A. Tsukazaki, Esq., Torkildson Katz ... (via Email: mat@torkildson.com)

James Duca, Esq. (via Email: jduca@kdubm.com)

Sidney K. Ayabe, Esq., Ayabe Chong Nishimoto Sia... (via fax: 808-526-3491)

Susan Tius, Esq., Rush Moore LLP (via Email: Stius@rmhawaii.com)

KSBE (former) Trustees Wong, Peters, Jervis, Stender & Lindsey

c/o Kenneth Hipp, Marr Hipp Jones... (via Email: khipp@marrhipp.com)

Kobi L. Gibbs, Esq., ALPS, Atty for Bradley Tamm and Gregory Dunn

(via fax: 406-728-7416)

Robert F. Miller (via fax: 808-521-3359 and Email: info@robertfmiller.com)

David A. Nakashima, Esq., Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing (via Email: dan@ahfi.com)

Lyn Flanigan Anzai, Hawaii State Bar Association (via Email: lanzai@hsba.org)

American Bar Association (via Email: dispute@abanet.org)

Arnold T. Phillips, Esq. (via fax: 808-528-5006)

Jeffrey N. Watanabe, Esq., Watanabe Ing... (via Email: jwatanabe@wik.com)

Eric Shine (vis Email: civilrights911@socal.rr.com)

Laser Haas (via Email: bhaass@aol.com)

Peter Scannell (via Email: p.scannell@comcast.net)

J.C. Shannon (via Email: hapa1234@aol.com)

Arthur Rath (via Email: artrath@earthlink.net)

Others...

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Black-David-11-23-5.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (06-21-08): JUDGE KURREN WAS THE JUDGE WHO PERMITTED THE SALE OF THE HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN FROM GANNETT PACIFIC CORPORATION TO DAVID BLACK, BLACK PRESS LTD, AS ONLY QUALIFIED BIDDER, AS FILED BY THEN-ATTORNEY GENERAL EARL ANZAI:

September 28, 2000

Black confident
of buying Bulletin

The owner of Black Press
expects to resolve issues
in the next few weeks

By Rick Daysog, Star-Bulletin

The Canadian publisher selected as the sole qualified bidder for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin is confident that he can reach a definitive agreement to acquire the 118-year-old afternoon daily.

David Black, owner of Victoria, B.C.-based Black Press Ltd., hopes to resolve several outstanding issues with the Star-Bulletin's owner, Liberty Newspapers Limited Partnership, and Gannett Co., the owner of the rival Honolulu Advertiser, during the next few weeks.

"I don't think there will be a problem," Black said yesterday in a telephone interview from Canada. "I think these issues are small enough and there's enough common sense that we can almost do it on the phone."

Yesterday, Federal Magistrate Barry Kurren selected Black Press as the only qualified bidder for the 63,500-circulation Star-Bulletin, in a major step toward preserving a second editorial voice in Honolulu.

The ruling -- which effectively rejected competing bids by Los Angeles-based Hadland Communications Inc. and a local group composed of former U.S. Rep. Cecil Heftel, Kauai developer Jeff Lindner and Kauai publishers Peter and Jane McClaran -- also directed Liberty and Gannett to negotiate transition issues and other unresolved matters with Black.

"The court is prepared to assist this process to resolve any disputed issues," according to Kurren's order, which also set an Oct. 27 deadline to negotiate a deal.

Kurren and U.S. District Judge Alan Kay have scheduled an Oct. 27 hearing to approve or terminate the deal....

http://starbulletin.com/2000/09/28/news/story2.html

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November 6, 2000

Prospective buyer of Star-Bulletin may nix union contracts

Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

David Black, head of Black Press Ltd., says he never said he'd accept union contracts as the company considers buying The Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Union contracts remain a hot topic since a court-order, requires Black to honor them if he purchases the daily. Black has already said he plans to print the newspaper at a nonunion shop to save money. Issues also remain in terms of whether he can find newsprint.

www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2000/11/06/daily2.html

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www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Black-David-11-23-5.htm

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David Black is expected to testify regarding his views on the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and editorial independence and integrity. David Black is also expected to testify regarding his business, professional and personal relationships with Frank Bridgewater, Island Holdings, Colbert Matsumoto, Jeffrey Case, Larry Johnson, The Nature Conservancy, Henry Paulson, Faye Kurren, David Farmer, FranklinTokioka, Jeffrey Watanabe, Warren K.K. Luke, Duane Kurisu, J. Douglas Ing, Watanabe Ing & Kawashima, Mark Bennett, Judge Barry Kurren, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Stanley Hong, Paul Alston, Rick Daysog, Ian Lind, Sally Apgar, Trinity International Holdings, Jon Miho, Midweek Publishing, Rupert Murdoch, University of Hawaii Foundation, and others to be named upon discovery.