Woo vs. Harmon - Witnesses: Bill & Hillary Clinton

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

BILL & HILLARY CLINTON

William J. Clinton is former U.S. President, and wife Hillary is a U.S. Senator from New York and 2008 candidate for President.

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April 11, 2002

Jobless no longer!
Bill Clinton has a steady job!

By Vasily Bubnov, Pravda

Finally, the ex-president of the USA has a steady job.

Now, Bill Clinton is a leading consultant with investment companies Yucaipa American Fund and Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund, owned by Ron Burkle, a friend of Bill Clinton. Ron Burkle made his fortune on a network of grocery supermarkets.

The RosBusinessConsulting news agency reports that the ex-president will be in charge of meetings and talks with political leaders and presidents of companies for further investing.

Mr. Burkle says, “I am proud that Bill Clinton will be a consultant with our company.”

No information about the salary of the new employee was published, but it was said his salary will depend on the company’s financial showings. Still, the sum is sure to be large.

On the whole, it is not a sensation that the ex-president will be working as a consultant. The majority of his predecessors preferred to earn their living by consulting for different companies. Such people with their wonderful connections in politics and business are really useful for companies.

Bill Clinton had no regular work for two years already. He delivered lectures and wrote memoirs that brought large and easy earnings. The ex-president needed money to cover his debts to the attorneys who worked for Mr. Clinton during his presidency.

So, good luck with your new job, Mr. Ex-President!

Are any trainees coming to the office as well?

Translated by Maria Gousseva

Read the original in Russian: http://pravda.ru/main/2002/04/11/39605.html

April 14, 2002

Jesse lands sweet deal for buddy Bill

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

BEST OF FRIENDS.

Looks as though the Rev. Jesse Jackson has helped his good buddy, former President Bill Clinton, land a cushy job with a California investment firm.

The Associated Press reported last week that Clinton will serve as counsel to the Yucaipa American Fund and the Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund, both headed by billionaire former supermarket magnate Ron Burkle. He’s a good friend of Jackson’s and a significant campaign contributor to the Democratic National Committee.

Burkle has helped out Jackson in the past. In 1998, Burkle, then CEO of Ralph’s Food Stores, helped two of Jackson’s sons land a lucrative Budweiser beer distributorship in Chicago.

In 1997, Clinton, Jackson and Burkle appeared in Pittsburgh for the AFL-CIO annual convention. A year later, Jackson and Burkle were part of a large entourage that accompanied Clinton on a trip to Africa.

The Yucaipa American Fund was formed in February by Burkle’s company. It is funded primarily from investments by the California Public Employees Retirement System.

Curiously enough, Burkle has been a significant campaign contributor to both California Gov. Gray Davis and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who just happens to be a trustee of the pension system.

Probably just a coincidence....

For more poop on Bill Clinton, GO TO > > > Hail to the Chief!

May 26, 2002

CalPERS invested $700 million
with Davis donor

Billionaire also made contributions to pension board members

Lance Williams, San Francisco Chronicle

The California Public Employees Pension System steered $700 million in investment capital to a wealthy financier who has donated more than $600,000 to Gov. Gray Davis and thousands more to officials who serve on the CalPERS board, according to state records.

According to the records, in the past year the CalPERS board has twice voted to make multimillion-dollar cash infusions in venture capital funds controlled by billionaire financier and supermarket magnate Ron Burkle of Los Angeles.

He is a heavy-hitting political donor with close ties to Davis and other top Democrats, including CalPERS board members San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and state Treasurer Phil Angelides.

Since 1998, Burkle has donated $609,000 to Davis' gubernatorial campaigns, and last year his Golden States Foods firm hired Davis' wife to serve on its board of directors.

The governor controls four appointments to the 13-member CalPERS board, but a spokesman said Davis plays no role in CalPERS investment decisions.

A CalPERS spokeswoman said the investments in Burkle's concerns were thoroughly vetted and made on the merits. Brown and Angelides acted legally in voting for the Burkle investments, said the spokeswoman, Patricia Macht.

But James Knox, chairman of the reform group California Common Cause, said the affair was troubling on clean-government grounds.

He contended that Brown and Angelides should have recused themselves rather than vote on the Burkle investments because they had obtained donations from him. And Knox said the scenario of a major donor seeking investment funds from CalPERS was "a concern because it puts the governor's appointees in a position where they can show favor to a major campaign contributor."

Charlie Oates, who publishes an independent newsletter for CalPERS pensioners, said the board should pursue more conventional investments and steer clear of investments involving their political benefactors.

"It's a public pension trust fund for the benefit of the members of the system and not for the benefit of the politicians," he said. "As trustees, they should be more concerned with running the trust and taking care of the beneficiaries."

Roger Salazar, Davis' spokesman, said the criticism was unfair....

Burkle is a self-made billionaire who rose from grocery store clerk to owner of the Ralph's/Food 4 Less chain. Today he lives in Greenacres, a Beverly Hills estate once owned by silent film star Harold Lloyd, and is CEO of the Yucaipa Companies investment concern.

Burkle is a longtime Democratic activist, and since 1998 he has donated $1.9 million to Democratic candidates and causes in California, state records show. Davis is his single biggest beneficiary.

According to Yucaipa spokesman Ari Swiller, the financier's friendship with Davis goes back 20 years, to the days when Burkle was a supermarket owner and Davis was an assemblyman pushing the idea of putting photos of abducted children on milk cartons....

They share other connections as well. Swiller, Yucaipa's spokesman, also serves as Davis' campaign treasurer. Davis' wife, Sharon, helped run Burkle's charitable foundation in the 1990s, and last year she went on the board of Golden State Foods, a Yucaipa-owned firm.

Burkle also has a long-standing connection to Mayor Brown, whom Davis appointed to the CalPERS board. From 1993 through 1995, while Brown was speaker of the Assembly, he moonlighted as a lawyer for Burkle's Food 4 Less chain, earning more than $30,000, state records show. Burkle's companies also donated $59,000 to his legislative campaigns.

After Brown became mayor of San Francisco, Burkle donated $100,000 to help underwrite the 1997 U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in San Francisco.

The billionaire also became involved in efforts to redevelop Treasure Island in San Francisco. In 1999, a firm backed by Burkle and headed by Darius Anderson, a Sacramento lobbyist who has worked as a fund-raiser for both the governor and Brown, was chosen by the mayor's office to develop a marina at Treasure Island...

CalPERS records show that Burkle's Yucaipa Corporate Initiative Fund obtained $200 million in investment capital via what the pension fund styled its "California initiative."

That strategy, announced in June 2000, is intended to boost economic development by pumping funds into what it called "underserved" areas, including rural and inner-city areas.

CalPERS consultants and staff reviewed more than 60 investment proposals, and finally recommended 11 investment firms, the records show.

In May 2001, the board unanimously approved the plan. Yucaipa's $200 million share was quadruple what any of the other firms obtained, the records show.

While the matter was pending, state records show Burkle hosted a fund- raiser for Davis and donated $20,000 to his campaign. He also donated $25,000 to Angelides, and made a series of other political donations, including $100, 000 to the state Democratic Party.

After Yucaipa obtained the $200 million investment, the firm pitched CalPERS on backing the Yucaipa America Fund, an investment fund that proposed to tap labor union pension funds for a venture capital fund....

In November, at a closed meeting, the CalPERS board voted to commit $500 million to the fund.

While that matter was pending, state records show Burkle hosted two more fund-raisers for Davis and donated $50,000 to his campaign. Less than three weeks after the vote, Burkle also hosted a fund-raiser for Angelides.

Macht said that in both Burkle investments the CalPERS staff had negotiated excellent terms to protect pensioners' investment and maximize return. No one in the governor's office ever contacted CalPERS staff about either matter, she said.

The $150 billion CalPERS pension fund is run by a 13-member board of state officials and representatives of pensioners and other interested groups.

Controversy over political donations has occasionally roiled CalPERS. In 1998, CalPERS voted to bar board members from obtaining political donations from firms that sought or were doing business with the pension fund.

The action came after the Los Angeles Times reported that state Controller Kathleen Connell and then-state Treasurer Matt Fong had obtained $400,000 in political donations from CalPERS contractors. Connell denied wrongdoing and successfully sued to overturn the ban, which is no longer in effect.

Earlier this month, the co-founder of a vineyard development firm that had recently obtained a $100 million investment from CalPERS hosted a $2,500-per- head political fund-raiser for Davis in San Francisco.

Backers of GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon accused Davis of using CalPERS to raise funds for his re-election drive, but Davis and Richard Wollack, co-CEO of Premier Pacific Vineyards, said there was no connection between the investment and the fund-raiser...

For more poop on CalPERS, GO TO > > > A Connecticut Yankee in King Kamehameha’s Court; The Great Nest Egg Robberies

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From “Dossier on Hillary Clinton”, by Amanda B. Carpenter:

MEMO

TO: MEMBERS OF THE VRWC

FROM: AMANDA B. CARPENTER

RE: SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

November 8, 2006, marks first day of Hillary Clinton’s campaign to be president of the United States.

Most Americans already know how they feel about her. She is the darling of the Manhattan elite, the hope of the national Democratic Party, the MVP of the pro-choice feminist movement, the rock star of the Hollywood Left, and the favorite of the liberal media. She has even been cozying up to Rupert Murdoch in recent months.

But just as numerous, even if not nearly so well-heeled, are those who–with good reason–don’t trust her. Millions of Americans disbelieve her victim act regarding her philandering husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. These are the members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

However vast and however determined we in the VRWC are, Hillary’s presidential campaign is a formidable foe. Thanks to her husband’s high-priced globe-trotting speaking tours, the couple’s close ties to big business (foreign and domestic), and her sheer star power, the Clinton campaign in 2008 will have unrivaled political experience, and Mrs. Clinton begins to look invincible.

Luckily, over here at the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, we have been keeping a file on her. The couple’s scandals are so numerous and so convoluted that it’s easy to forget some of the dirty deals, unsavory incidents, insane proposals, revealing comments, and outright flip-flops in Hillary’s past. Also, most of the media has little interest in looking deep enough into Hillary’s actions since she entered Congress....

So, here it is–the dossier on Hillary Clinton, complete with many original documents–“exhibits”– we call them. As a member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, you already know what you feel about Hillary Clinton. Here’s making sure you don’t forget why....

VITAL INFORMATION

NAME: Hillary Rodham Clinton...

DATE OF BIRTH: October 26, 1947...

INCOME: $165,100 per year as base pay of U.S. senator. Has earned millions in royalties from her memoir....

Mr. Clinton receive a book advance rumored to be between $10 million and $12 million to write his memoir “My Life” from the same publisher. Mr. Clinton made over $29 million in speaking fees from 2001-2005. As a former president he earns a yearly pension for $197,000. Mr. Clinton requested a $963,000 reimbursement from the federal government for his office and staff for the fiscal year 2007....

THE LEGACY OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AS HILLARY CLINTON PRESIDED AS FIRST LADY (TAKEN FROM THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW):

RECORDS SET:

> The first First Lady to come under criminal investigation

> The highest number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation

> The highest number of witnesses to flee the country or refuse to testify

> Married to the first president to be disbarred from the U.S. Supreme Court and state court

> Married to the first president accused of rape

> Married to the only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance

> Married to the first president to establish a legal defense fund

> Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case

> Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions

> Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad

CRIMINAL STATISTICS:

> 47 individuals and businesses affiliated with the Clintons were convicted or pled guilty to crimes

> 33 convictions during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as First Lady

> 61 indictments and misdemeanor charges

> 122 congressional witnesses, who pleeaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed

CLINTON-RELATED CRIMES FOR WHICH CONVICTIONS WERE OBTAINED

Drug trafficking (3), racketeering, extortion, bribery (4), tax evasion, kickbacks, embezzlement (2), fraud (12), conspiracy (5), fraudulent loans, illegal gifts (1), illegal campaign contributions (5), money laundering (6), perjury, obstruction of justice.

NUMBER OF TIME MRS. CLINTON SAID SOME FORM OF “I DON’T KNOW” IN COURT OR BEFORE CONGRESS AS FIRST LADY: 250 ...

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#1 - THE FOREIGN CASH FILE

One source of Senator Clinton’s vast wealth is the foreign traveling and deal-making of her husband, former president Bill Clinton. This foreign money, now Clinton family wealth, is now available to Hillary for her presidential run in 2008.

The Clintons have a long and sordid history with foreign money, presenting potential security problems, at a minimum.

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CHINESE SPIES AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Throughout the Clinton presidency, Chinese agents gained unprecedented access to sensitive parts of the executive branch. This access was not gained through outright subterfuge, but through illegal and secretive campaign contributions from Asian businessmen with ties to the Chinese military.

In the late 1990s, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee found that top Chinese liaison Johnny Chung, later sentenced to probation for violating campaign finance laws, was given “extraordinary access to the White House and especially the First Lady’s office.” The committee’s final report said, “There can be no question that Chung’s contributions to the DNC helped give him access to the president and the First Lady.”

There was a direct nexus between Chung’s visits to the White House and his contributions. In fact, White House officials collected money from him in the First Lady’s office in exchange for permitting him to bring a delegation of clients to White House events.

Chung and his company donated a total of $366,000 to the Democratic National Convention and made at least forty-nine visits to the Clinton White House between 1994 and 1996. In 1995, he told the Los Angeles Times that he “saw the White House like a subway. You have to put in coins to open the gates.”

Bill Clinton has left the White House, but he now acts as a gatekeeper controlling access to his wife the senator. In this light, Mr. Clinton’s foreign activities are deserving of scrutiny.

THE INTRICACIES OF FOREIGN MONEY

Federal law prohibits foreign nationals, foreign organizations, and foreign governments from contributing to campaigns for federal office. The Clintons appear to have found a loophole to avoid these restrictions.

Money earned by a candidate’s spouse does not have to be reported to the FEC, even though most married couples–including the Clintons–intertwine their finances. Thus prohibited entities such as foreign citizens or foreign governments can legally contribute to Mrs. Clinton’s campaigns through donations to her husband. This could take the form, for example, of paying Mr. Clinton a large sum in exchange for a speaking engagement.

Since leaving the White House, former president Bill Clinton has earned more than $20 million in honoraria from foreign interests (see Appendix G). These monies can later be used to help finance Hillary Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign....

The senator’s 2005 Senate financial disclosure report revealed that she and her husband held a joint Citibank deposit account containing between $5 million and $25 million, and which produced between $50,001 and $100,000 in interest. In addition, she shared a Senate Qualified Blind Trust with her husband that was also worthe between $5 million and $25 million. The trust had earned between $100, 000 and $1 million in interest....

Former president Ronald Reagan wa fiercely criticized in October 1989 when Japanese business giant Fujusankei Communications Group reportedly paid him $2 million for a nine-day visit during which Reagan gave two speeches. The New York Times editorialized: “The Reagans’ willing participation is as disturbins as their extraordinary compensation. Former presidents haven’t always comproported themselves with dignity after leaving the Oval Office. But none have plunged so blatantly into pure commercialism.”

Former president Clinton, however, has plunged more “blatantly into pure commercialism.” He was paid nearly $22 million from 2001 to 2004 for 151 appearances. He usually charged at least $125,000 per appearance, and his highest single fee was $400,000. Senator Clinton’s financial disclosures show that foreign-based groups paid the former president $16.04 million for eighty-nine appearances.

The foreign-based groups that paid honoraria to former president Clinton included:

> The Australian Council for the Peaceful Reunification of China: Chinese political dissident Wei Jingsheng publicly criticized Clinton for accepting $300,000 to speak at this organization’s conference in Sydney, Australia, in 2002. Jingsheng denounced the meeting as “a method from the Chinese government of promoting so-called nationalism.” President George W. Bush visited Taiwan that same week and pledged to “help Taiwan defend herself it provoked” by China.

> The Daggagh Group: The Dabbagh Group is a Saudi financial services, agricultural products, energy services, and real estate conglomerate founded in 1962 by Sheikh Abdullah Dabbagh, a former Saudi minister for agriculture.... The Dabbagh Group paid Clinton $475,000 for two speeches in 2002, one of which was for Dabbah’s charitable foundation STARS....

NEW CHINESE DEVELOPMENTS–MORE COMMUNIST CASH?

The CEO of a Chinese company that paid Mr. Clinton a $200,000 honorarium for a thirty-minute speech in May 2002 played a prominent role in the government of Communist China.

Senator Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure forms state that her husband was paid the money by DNM Strategies on behalf of the Jingli Real Estate Development Group for a speech on May 23, 2002, in Shenzhen, China. DNM Strategies produces and manages all of Business Week magazine’s events in China.

A Business Week spokeswoman told this writer that Jingli is a private real estate company in Shenzhen/Southern China and that a man named Chen Hua is its CEO.

The Shenzhen Real Estate Association website described Hua as a member of the Shenzhen Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which is organized by the National People’s Congress. According to the State Department’s 2006 report on China, the National People’s Congress is “the primary organ” of the Chinese Communist Party.

Neither Senator Clinton’s office nor former president Clinton’s office responded to inquiries about the ownership of the Chinese company that paid the former president $200,000...

MR. CLINTON’S CORPORATE PARTNERS

Former president Clinton actively recruits big businesses and billion-dollar foundations into international alliances to help carry out his global agenda.

Clinton calls this effort the Clinton Global Initiative and claims it is his most ambitious project yet. In the CGI’s first year alone, Mr. Clinton Secured pledges totaling more than $3 billion to help fund his projects to alleviate poverty, climate change, and religious conflict, and to promote good governance, enterprise, and investment.

The CGI revolves around an annual high-stakes networking conference. The first conference, held last September in New York City, secured over three hundred “pledges” valued at more than $2 billion. Roughly 1,000 hand-picked corporate CEOs, non-profit leaders, and top government officials participated, with each making a “commitment” to one of Clinton’s causes. Participants paid a $15,000 fee to attend the conference.

Among the headliners at last year’s conference were Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, British prime minister Tony Blair, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, Senator Hillary Clinton, former vice president Al Gore, Goldman Sachs CEO (and current treasury secretary) Hank Paulson, King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein and Queen Rania of Jordan, and international financier George Soros.

Corporate sponsors included Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Google, Nokia, Starbucks, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft....

Most of the pledges Clinton raised in the first year, according to CGI’s annual report, were concentrated in two areas: “alleviating world poverty,” which took in $798,153,000, and “climate change” which secured $657,408,000. “Religious reconciliation: brought in $327,356,000.

Non-profits were the most generous donors, pledging $970,309,000. Corporations were second, giving $751,783,000. Individuals and foundations gave a combined total of $146,882,000, while government entities pledged $118,899,000.

Hillary Clinton’s participation in the CGI, including a major address on climate change she gave at the New York conference, further illustrate the complicated, tangled web between her, her husband and his foreign financial backers.

GOOD AS GOLDMAN

Goldman Sachs, the New York-based global investment and securities firm, hired Bill Clinton to give four speeches in the course of a year. On December 3, 2004, he was paid $125,000 to speak in New York; on April 20, 2005, he received another $125,000 to appear in Kiawah, Georgia; on June 6 he spoke in Paris, France, for $125,000; and on June 13 he gave a speech in Greensboro, Georgia, for $150,000. There appears to have ben no press coverage of these engagements....

987 F.2d 608

25 Fed.R.Serv.3d 421

* Raymond PEDRINA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,

Han Kuk CHUN; Y.Y. Valley Corp.; Tetsuo Yasuda; Robert
Carter; Masanori Kobayashi; Yoshinori "Ken" Hayashida;
City and County of Honolulu; Frank F. Fasi, Mayor; Hiroshi
Kobayashi; Eugene Lum; Nora Lum; Ernest Souza,
Defendants-Appellees.

No. 92-15065.

United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.

Argued and Submitted Nov. 5, 1992.
Decided March 4, 1993.

Page 609

Thomas Lavigne, Kaneohe, Hawaii; Anthony P. Locricchio, Kailua, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul Alston, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing; Robert C. Godbey, Gilbert & Jeynes; Stanley E. Levin; Rodney Veary, Deputy City Atty.; James E. Duffy, Jr., Fujiyama Duffy & Fujiyama; Wallace S. Fujiyama; Mervyn Kotake; Eugene Lum; Robert J. Hackman, Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants-appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Before BROWNING, NORRIS, and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Rule 41(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides, in relevant part:

[A]n action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court (i) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever first occurs.

The question presented by this appeal is whether Rule 41(a)(1) allows a plaintiff to dismiss without a court order fewer than all of the named defendants, or whether the Rule is limited to dismissals of the plaintiff's entire case.

The answer to this question turns on our interpretation of the word "action" in Rule 41(a)(1), and whether it refers to the entire controversy against all the defendants, or to the entirety of claims against any single defendant. Other circuits are divided on the question.... ("Rule 41(a)(1) provides for the voluntary dismissal of an 'action' not a 'claim'; the word 'action' as used in the Rules denotes the entire controversy, whereas 'claim' refers to what has traditionally been termed 'cause of action.' ")....

For more, GO TO > > > The Vultures in Maunawili Valley

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Bill and Hillary Clinton are expected to testify regarding their business, professional and personal relationships with Joshua Gotbaum, Matsuo Takabuki; The Bureau of Indian Affairs; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Robert Rubin; Colonel Russell Hermann; V.K. Durham; Goldman Sachs; Chubb Group; James Baker III; William S. Simon; Admiral Thomas Fargo; Trex Enterprises; Northrop Grumman; Noshir Gowadia; The Carlyle Group; The Nature Conservancy; Norman Mineta; Dan Akaka; Ted Stevens; Ed Case; Suzanne Case; Steve Case; Chris Yuen; Linda Lingle; Benjamin Cayetano; John Waihee III; John Waihee IV; George Ariyoshi; Gary Rodrigues; Judge Barry Kurren; Faye Kurren; Tesoro Hawaii; Matson Navigation; John Garibaldi; Hawaii Superferry; Linda Chu Takayama; Zephyr Insurance; Hawaiian Airlines; Kamehameha Schools; William S. Richardson; Hamilton McCubbin; Dee Jay Mailer; Robert Kihune; USS Missouri Association; Earl Anzai; Lyn Anzai; Judge Kevin Chang; Judge David Ezra; Donna Tanoue; Sukamto Sia; Dianne Plotts; Henry Peters; James Riady; Panin Group; Guido Giacometti; Bank of Hawaii; Sumitomo Corp; Marisco, Ltd.; Maui Planning Commission; Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources; Aloha Airlines; Colbert Matsumoto; Stanford Carr; Judith Neustadter Fuqua; Bill Mills; Wayne Minami; Jean Rolles, Outrigger Hotels; Eric Yeaman; Peter Baldwin; David C. Cole; Walter A. Dods, Stanley Hong; Jeffrey Watanabe; Allen Hunter; Trex Enterprises; Lawrence M. Johnson; Summit Communications; Robert Kihune; Clayton Hee; Gilbert Tam; Sandwich Isles Communications;Dept. of Hawaiian Homelands; James Ahloy; Aloha Petroleum; University of Hawaii; University of Hawaii Foundation; Kazu Hayashida, Rockne Freitas, James Nicholson, Duke Cunningham, Nichols Bros Boat Builders, American Classic Cruises, Brent Wilkes, ADCS, Inc. General Dynamics, Admiral William Crowe, Yucaipa American Fund, Dan Inouye, Paul Alston, Gene & Nora Lum, and others to be named upon discovery.