THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRUSTEE

David C. Farmer, Successor Trustee
vs.
Bobby N. Harmon

(Formerly Mary Lou Woo vs. Harmon and James Nicholson vs. Harmon)

CV05-00030 DAE/KSC

United States District Court, District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

DAVID C. FARMER

225 Queen Street, Suite 15A
Honolulu, HI 96813

E-mail: farmer001@hawaii.rr.com

David C. Farmer was appointed as Successor Trustee (to James Nicholson) on July 5, 2007; over the repeated Objections of Defendant that Mr. Farmer would be biased due to multiple conflicts of interest.

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SEE LATEST UPDATES AT

CV05-00030 - WITNESS: DAVID C. FARMER

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According to his biography, David C. Farmer received his law degree from William S. Richardson School of Law in 1985. Before forming his LLC company (2002-present), he was previously associated with Ashford & Wriston (1998-2001); Lynch & Farmer (1995-1998); Case & Lynch (1992-1995); Wagner, Watson & DiBianco (1985-1986); Carlsmith, Carlsmith, Wichman and Case (1984); Hawaii State Judiciary (1983-1984); and Hart & Wolf (1983); Trustee, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2000-2001. He is well known for his contributions to local theater as a director, actor and producer. He has performed in dozens of plays staged by Kumu Kahua, Manoa Valley Theatre, HAPA Theatre Company and Diamond Head Theatre, among others, as well as directed numerous productions, including his work with Solange & Associates, the group he co-founded with his wife Loren

David Farmer is also a member of the faculty of the Japan Association of International Management Society (JAIMS), in their Intercultural Management Program (ICMP) along with Michael Tanoue, and was a classmate of Kirk Cashmere, AIDS Activist (William S. Richardson School of Law, 1985).

David Farmer served as Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts under Governor Ben Cayetano, and was fired due to complaints involving allegations of poor management and unethical conduct.

David Farmer has served as an appointee to the Bankruptcy Mediation Committee, along with Susan Tius.

David Farmer is an attorney for Aloha Airlines in their bankruptcy case.

David Farmer is an executive for Hawaii Public Radio. Corporate supporters of Hawaii Public Radio include a number of entities who are financially connected with this case, including The Kroll Foundation, Ashford & Wriston, AIG Hawaii, Alexander & Baldwin, Aloha Airlines, American Savings Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Castle & Cooke Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente, Marriott Hawaiian Hotels & Resorts, First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui Land & Pineapple, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca Moore & Hetherington, and University of Hawaii. (see http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/biz.htm)

David Farmer is an associate of Milici Valenti Ng Pack Advertising, Nick Ng Pack, President & CEO.

CLIENT LIST FOR ASHFORD & WRISTON

Representative Clients

Barnwell Industries

Bank of Hawai`i

Department of Hawaiian Homelands

Finance Realty Co., Ltd.

First Hawaiian Bank

Ford Motor Credit Corporation

Hawai`i Credit Union League

Hawai`i Medical Services Association

Hawai`i Reserves, Inc.

Hawai`i State Federal Credit Union

Kahua Ranch Limited

Kamehameha Investment Corporation

Kamehameha Schools

Kaneohe Ranch

Knudsen Trust

McCandless Ranch

Old Republic Title Company

Parker Ranch

Queen Liliuokalani Trust

The Queen Emma Foundation

Queen's Medical Center

State of Hawai`i

Roman Catholic Church in the State of Hawaii

The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific

Territorial Savings & Loan Association

Ticor Title Insurance Company

Title Guaranty Escrow Services, Inc

Title Guaranty of Hawai`i Incorporated

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IN HIS OWN WORDS:

Book Review

Broken Trust

Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at
America’s Largest Charitable Trust

by

David C. Farmer

Afterward

The author submits the following in the spirit of transparency and full disclosure in what continues to be the biggest small town in the Pacific.

I have lived in Hawaii since 1966. I was a student of Professor Roth at the William S. Richardson law school in the early '80s and worked closely with him on the 1998 Hawaii Bar Association Centennial Anniversary show when he served as HSBA president. I have also been his colleague when I taught as a visiting and adjunct professor at the school.

I was an associate and partner from 1986 to 1995 with the law firm of Case & Lynch, now Case Lombard! & Pettit, which traces its origin in1888 to William Owen Smith, one of the initial trustees under the will and also incidentally one of the architects of the overthrow of the monarchy.

I also was counsel with Ashford & Wriston from 1998 through 2001, one of the firms criticized by a court-appointed master for not seeing conflicts related to trustee misconduct, but also a well respected firm I know first-hand to have the most impeccable and highest ethical and professional standards.

Good friends include Wendell Brooks, who served two years as Kamehameha Schools' chief investment officer after the removal of the trustees; Rick Daysog, whose Honolulu Advertiser reports were specially acknowledged for their excellence; and Lavonne Leong, rightfully praised as the writers' "absolutely superb editor."

Finally, one of my oldest friends is Larry Kamakawiwo'ole, a Kamehameha alumnus and the courageous leader of the Kalama Valley struggle in the 1970s, described in Chapter 4 of the book but without identifying his name.

David C Farmer has served as an editor of the Hawaii Bar Journal and member of the Publications Committee since 1991.

He currently practices in the areas of bankruptcy, collections, and creditors' rights with his own firm, David C Farmer Attorney at Law LLLC.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rroth/untitled%20(1).pdf

See also:

DAVID FARMER’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

CV05-00030 - WITNESS: DAVID C. FARMER

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-31-10): More undisclosed “cozy relationships” between George W. Bush, the bin Ladens, and others related to this lawsuit:

FROM...

THE CATBIRD’S NEST

COZY RELATIONSHIPS

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NEW DISCOVERY (01-25-10): More evidence of “cozy relationships” and undisclosed conflicts of interest between the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mucasey, John Ashcroft, Eric Holder, Edward Kubo, John Goemans, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Chief Justice William S. Richardson, Chief Justice John Roberts, Governor Linda Lingle, Governor George Ariyoshi, Governor John Waihee, Governor Ben Cayetano, Margery Bronster, Earl Anzai, Mark Bennett, Francis Keala, Larry Mehau, Sukamto Sia, Diane Plotts, Constance Lau, Bob Awana, CIA, FBI, IRS, Janet Hughes, Ron Rewald, Ken Starr, James Paul, John Peyton, James Nicholson, David C. Farmer, and other entities directly related in this case.

January 25, 2010

2 former staffers oppose Kubo

By Jim Dooley Advertiser Staff Writer

Included among an outpouring of support from judges, lawyers and prosecutors for the nomination of former U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo as a state judge were two harsh and critical letters written by assistant U.S. attorneys who used to work for Kubo.

The letters, from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark Inciong and Thomas Muehleck, were among dozens sent to the state Senate Judiciary and Government Operations Committee about Kubo's nomination to serve as a Circuit Court judge.

A hearing on Kubo's nomination was held by the committee Thursday and featured uniformly positive and glowing testimony from witnesses.

Neither Inciong nor Muehleck testified at the hearing, which was halted while Kubo was still testifying and will resume Thursday.

Numerous dignitaries of the legal profession, as well as political figures including Mayors Mufi Hannemann of Honolulu and William Kenoi of the Big Island, wrote to recommend Kubo as a judge.

Inciong said in his letter that Kubo improperly inserted the U.S. Attorney's office into a state court domestic violence case that involved two agents with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE.

In that case, ICE Special Agent Evelyn Delos Reyes Ramo obtained a restraining order in November 2008 against her former boyfriend, who worked as an immigration enforcement agent.

The restraining order, which is in effect until May, was granted after Ramo alleged that Jonathan Winnop threatened to kill her on multiple occasions and physically abused her by "punching, kicking, slapping ... spitting on me ... choking me with his hands, holding a knife to me ... and put(ting) his foot on my throat until I would pass out."

kubo's court brief

Kubo's office filed a "friend of the court" brief in the case in March 2009, which Inciong alleged was an improper attempt to "ease the conditions" of the restraining order against Winnop.

"The filing reeked on several levels and the true reason for the filing has yet to be revealed," Inciong wrote to the committee.

"It is ironic, to say the least, that if Mr. Kubo would be appointed to the bench it is my understanding that he would begin at the Family Court, a place where, less than a year ago, he attempted to intervene on behalf of a domestic batterer," Inciong wrote.

Kubo is expected to discuss Inciong's letter in testimony to the committee. He declined to discuss either letter written by his former employees.

State Sen. Sam Slom, R-8th (Kähala, Hawai'i Kai), a Kubo supporter, said Kubo testified at some length Thursday about Muehleck's letter, but said little about Inciong, other than to describe him as a friend and supporter of Muehleck.

Muehleck, a longtime federal prosecutor who has specialized in narcotics cases, disagreed with Kubo's policies at the U.S. Attorney's office, Kubo told the committee.

When Muehleck, a U.S. Army Reserve officer, returned to work in 2008 from a yearlong deployment to Iraq, he was upset to learn that a parking space he had previously used at the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area offices here was no longer available to him, Kubo told the committee.

He was so angry about the issue and other matters that at one point he said about Kubo, "If I had a hand grenade now I would frag him," Slom said Kubo testified.

workplace dispute

Kubo reported the incident as a workplace violence issue and tried to fire Muehleck when the prosecutor was in the middle of a narcotics and gambling prosecution trial.

Muehleck hired a private attorney and fought the dismissal after Kubo banished him from the U.S. Attorney's office. He worked for a year in temporary space inside the FBI office here and has since been reinstated.

Muehleck and his attorney, Charles Kleintop, have declined to discuss the matter.

In his letter to the Judiciary Committee, Muehleck wrote, "I can say without reservation that in my opinion Mr. Kubo is not qualified to serve as a judge."

He questioned Kubo's leadership abilities and knowledge of the law, saying, "Mr. Kubo has spent the last eight years building his resume at the expense of the people of this (federal) district."

Those letters were balanced against a near-avalanche of letters recommending Kubo for the judgeship.

Kubo, a Republican, served as U.S. Attorney for eight years but was replaced last year by Florence Nakakuni, a career prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office here.

State Sen. Brian Taniguchi, D-10th (Mänoa, McCully), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Government Operations Committee, said senators have some concerns about Kubo's nomination. He said his staff will look into the criticisms before the next hearing.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100125/NEWS01/1250320/-1/

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See related exhibits at

http://sites.google.com/site/thecatbirdsnest/

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DAVID C. FARMER PHOTO GALLERY

http://www.state.hi.us/sfca/annual_report_fy20002001.pdf

http://hawaii.gov/sfca/artreachwinter2001.pdf

http://www.facebook.com/people/David-C-Farmer/825545337

http://starbulletin.com/2006/05/31/features/berger.html

http://starbulletin.com/2006/10/13/features/story07.html

http://starbulletin.com/2006/11/09/news/berger.html

http://starbulletin.com/2007/04/24/news/berger.html

http://starbulletin.com/specials/uhfootball/2007/running-backs

http://starbulletin.com/2008/03/31/news/story01.html

http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/06/special/story02.html

http://www.hawaii.edu/biograph/biohi/doleguide.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A17RJT7W9YSOMW

www.jamesmacarthur.com/TwentiethCentury/TwentiethCentury.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/themistyone/related_photos.htm

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THE CATBIRD’S NEST

“AIG: THE AMERICAN IDOL OF GREED!”

“CONFESSIONS OF A WHISTLEBLOWER”

“FREEDOM TO SING!”

“GOOGLING IN THE CATBIRD SEAT”

“TRACKING THE AIPAC VULTURES”

“HERE COME DA JUDGE”

“SECRETS”

“JOHN GOEMANS: CRUSADER FOR A COLOR-BLIND AMERICA”

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RICE vs CAYETANO

No. 98-818

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

HAROLD F. RICE

Petitioner

v.

BENJAMIN J. CAYETANO, GOVERNOR OF

THE STATE OF HAWAI'I

Respondent

BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE

STATE COUNCIL OF HAWAIIAN HOMESTEAD

ASSOCIATION, HUI KAKO'O 'AINA

HO'OPULAPULA, KALAMA'ULA HOMESTEAD

ASSOCIATION AND HAWAIIAN HOMES

COMMISSION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT

Filed July 28, 1999

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CONCLUSION

Amici respectfully request that the decision of the court

of appeals be affirmed.

DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, July 28, 1999.

Paul Alston

William M. Tam

Lea Hong

Counsel for Amici Curiae

David M. Forman

Co-counsel for State Council of

Hawaiian Homestead Associations

and Hui Käko'o 'Äina

Ho 'opulapula

Karen M. Holt

Co-counsel for Kalama 'ula

Homestead Association

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Rice vs Cayetano Brief

JOHN GOEMANS: CRUSADER FOR A COLOR-BLIND AMERICA

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GOOGLING FOR AIPAC + LINDA LINGLE + LARRY SILVERSTEIN + JACK ABRAMOFF + JOSHUA GOTBAUM + DAVID FARMER

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KARL ROVE & THORNS IN THE ROSE GARDEN

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GOOGLING FOR THE BANKRUPTCY BUZZARDS THAT FLEW ALOHA AIRLINES INTO THE GROUND

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GOOGLING FOR JOHN WAIHEE + ROBERT BRUCE GRAHAM + DAVID FARMER

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GOOGLING FOR IMAGES OF THE FARMER & THE CATBIRD

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GOOGLING FOR DAVID C. FARMER’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

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GOOGLE MAPS TRUSTEE DAVID C. FARMER

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MORE GOOGLING FOR DAVID FARMER AND ...

GOVERNOR BEN CAYETANO

GOVERNOR JOHN WAIHEE

GOVERNOR GEORGE ARIYOSHI

GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE

SENATOR DAN INOUYE

SENATOR DANIEL AKAKA

REPRESENTATIVE NEIL ABERCROMBIE

JUDGE WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON

JUDGE EDEN ELIZABETH HIFO (fka BAMBI WEIL)

JUDGE ROBERT FARIS

JUDGE LLOYD KING

JUDGE BARRY KURREN

JUDGE KEVIN CHANG

JUDGE DAVID EZRA

JUDGE ALAN KAY

JUDGE SUSAN OKI MOLLWAY

JUDGE REY GRAULTY

HAWAII STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE & THE ARTS

ASHFORD & WRISTON

DANIEL CASE

KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS

COLBERT MATSUMOTO

BANK OF AMERICA

BANK OF HAWAII

BANK OF HONOLULU

CENTRAL PACIFIC BANK

CITIGROUP

GOLDMAN SACHS

FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK

WALTER DODS

BISHOP MUSEUM

HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO

ALOHA AIRLINES

DAVID BANMILLER

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES

JOSHUA GOTBAUM

JAMES MacARTHUR

CHRIS HEMMETER

DIANE PLOTTS

SUKAMTO SIA

COACH JUNE JONES

RON REWALD

JAMES NICHOLSON

PAUL ALSTON

JUDITH NEUSTADTER FUQUA

ERIC MARTINSON

STEVEN GUTTMAN

RANDALL ROTH

BOBBY N. HARMON

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BOOK REVIEW OF
“BROKEN TRUST: GREED, MISMANAGEMENT AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION AT AMERICA’S LARGEST CHARITABLE TRUST”

By David C. Farmer

Hawaii Bar Journal, July 2006

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rroth/untitled%20(1).pdf

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NEW DISCOVERY (07/24/09): More undisclosed relationships between David Farmer, Steven Guttman, Robin Campaniano, Rey Graulty, Wayne Metcalf, Linda Lingle, James Nicholson, Jim Nicholson, Phillip Winn, John Waihee, Barack Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Norm Brownstein, Larry Mizel, Leonard Millman, Gale Norton, Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, The Nature Conservancy, Goldman Sachs, Chubb Group, AIG, HUD, AIPAC, HonFed, Investors Equity Insurance Co., etc.

PHILLIP WINN GETS PARDON

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NEW DISCOVERY (07-07-09): More of David Farmer’s undisclosed and unacknowledged financial and professional conflicts of interest with the University of Hawaii, including witnesses William S. Richardson, Eric Martinson, James Haynes, June Jones, Margery Bronster, Linda Lingle, Colbert Matsumoto, etc.:

January 5, 2009

Lingle names 5 new UH regents

Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

Gov. Linda Lingle has chosen five people to replace the University of Hawaii regents who had stayed on after their terms expired.

Lingle announced Saturday that the new regents are Dr. Ramon de la Pena, a University of Hawaii professor and agronomist who will serve as the regent from Kauai; Mark Fukunaga, Chairman and CEO of Servco Pacific; Dr. Chuck Gee, former dean of the UH School of Travel Industry Management; Eric Martinson, managing director and vice president of Tradewind Capital Group (a wholly-owned investment subsidiary of Island Holdings, Inc.) and Grant Teichman, a UH student majoring in history and political science.

Lingle was ordered by the Hawaii State Supreme Court in December to replace six regents whose terms had expired June 30, 2008.

Lingle has requested more time to find a replacement for the last regent.

The current regents are Al Landon, regent chairman, Honolulu seat; Howard Karr, Honolulu seat; Dennis Hirota, Honolulu seat; Ronald Migita, Honolulu seat; Artemio Baxa, Maui seat; James Haynes II, Maui seat; Carl Carlson, West Hawaii seat; Harvey Tajiri, East Hawaii seat; and Teen Rasmussen, at large seat.

Hawaii Business News

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NEW DISCOVERY (06-11-09): More undisclosed relationships of David Farmer with Aloha Airlines, Blue Wolf Capital, Joshua Gotbaum, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Yucaipa, Judge Robert Faris, John Waihee, Ben Cayetano, AIG, Marsh & McLennan, Colbert Matsumoto, etc:

http://www.kycbs.net/Blue-Wolf.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (06-07-09): Re: Undisclosed relationships of Steve Goodfellow, Linda Lingle, Mufi Hannemann, Charmaine Tavares, Hawaiian Telcom, Eric Yeaman, Walter Dods, First Hawaiian Bank, Bishop Museum, Timothy Johns, Mark Polivka, Carlyle Group, Sandwich Isles Communications, Robert Kihune, Gil Tam, Bank of Hawaii, Paul Allaire, Lucent Technologies, Paul Alston, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Carol Muranaka, David Farmer, Dan Inouye, Central Pacific Bank, Daniel Akaka, Neil Abercrombie, Norman Mineta, AIG, Aon, Colbert Matsumoto, Island Insurance Co., Roy Hughes, Colleen Hanabusa, Micah Kane, Larry Mehau, etc.

www.kycbs.net/Goodfellows.htm

www.kycbs.net/Hawaiian-Telcom.htm

www.kycbs.net/SandwichIsles.htm

www.kycbs.net/Blue-Gold-Hawaii.htm

www.kycbs.net/Lucent.htm

www.kycbs.net/Sandwich-Isles-Lucent-Maui-Co.pdf

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/images/pdf/Annual_report.pdf

www.buildingindustryhawaii.com/0903/BI039_FinanceBonding.pdf

www.hawaii.gov/gov/news/releases/2005/News_Item.2005-07-18.0029

http://www.ttsfo.com/sbcteis/feis/text/13.pdf

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2007 DONOR RECOGNITION

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Goodfellow Brothers, Inc. ▲. Grant Thornton Foundation .... Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Alston. American Council of Engineering. Companies of HI ...... Mr. Larry Mehau. Mr. & Mrs. William J. Metzger. James K. Michishima, CPA ...
www.uhf.hawaii.edu/ROG/2007_Donor_Reg_List.pdf -

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NEW DISCOVERIES (05-15-09): More evidence of fraud, bad faith, racketeering, undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer, Robin Campaniano, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, etc:

ZOOMINFO PROFILE FOR ROBIN CAMPANIANO

www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=6773481

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TARP: THE GREAT AMERICAN COVERUP

http://www.kycbs.net/TARP.htm

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THE BUZZARDS IN CHARGE OF THE AIG BAILOUT

http://www.kycbs.net/AIG-Bailout.htm

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NEW DISCOVERIES (05-12-09): More factual evidence of undisclosed conflicts of interest between David C. Farmer, Bobby N. Harmon, Judge David A. Ezra, and other parties in this case:

Zoominfo Profile for Judge David A. Ezra

www.zoominfo.com/Search/ReferencesView.aspx?PersonID=6425393

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Zoominfo Profile for Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU

www.zoominfo.com/Search/ReferencesView.aspx?PersonID=912950374

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Zoominfo Profile for Trustee David C. Farmer

www.zoominfo.com/Search/ReferencesView.aspx?PersonID=139713972

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-07-09): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between David Farmer, Marc C. Tilker, Linda Lingle, Robert Katz, Greg Dunn, Timothy Johns, Steven Guttman, Honolulu Community Foundation, C. Brewer, Hawaii Nature Center, Bishop Museum, etc.

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Tilker-Marc.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-01-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interest between AAA Arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, David C. Farmer, Governor Ben Cayetano, etc:

http://www.becketfund.org/litigate/HOKComplaint.pdf

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-27-09): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between David Farmer, Warren Price, Sharon Himeno, Matsuo Takabuki, etc.:

From Land and Power in Hawaii, by George Cooper and Gavan Daws:

Chapter 10: Oahu - Salt Lake

... Another sub-set of connections arose with city planning commissioners who voted to approve apartment zoning for Salt Lake, and later acquired a financial interest in the development. Commissioner Stanley T. Himeno in December 1964 seconded a motion to approve large-acreage apartment zoning around the lake. A year later he was among the first to buy into this acreage.

Commissioner Henry C.H. Chun Hoon in 1957 voted on a master plan for Salt Lake that included 40 acres for apartments. With a business partner in 1966 he bought two apartment-zoned lots within the area. At the time of purchase he was a member of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals....

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As for actual sitting councilmen, a number of time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, George Koga, Clesson Chikasuye and Matsuo Takabuki voted on master development plans for Salt Lake that included land owned by themselves, their secretaries, and Chikasuye’s father. They also voted for capital improvements and other zoning masters that had the effect of enhancing their investments.

Never during these votes were the investments disclosed...

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-27-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer and Gensiro Kawamoto, Sharon Himeno, Renton Nip, etc.

http://luc.state.hi.us/comaui/a88-626united_realty_motion.pdf

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-26-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer and Warren Price, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sharon Himeno, Ben Cayetano, John Waihee, Renton Nip, Judge Kevin Chang, etc.

September 12, 1997

Ex-Justice
Nakamura dies

He was a guiding force in Hawaii's
Democratic revolution of the 1950s

By Mike Yuen, Star-Bulletin

Former labor attorney and state Supreme Court Justice Edward Nakamura, widely regarded as a man of integrity unafraid to criticize abuses of power, died early yesterday at Queen's Hospital after undergoing open heart surgery.

Nakamura, 74, had suffered a heart attack Saturday, said his wife, Martha Nakamura.

Even after retirement in 1989 after nearly 10 years as an associate justice, Nakamura remained an influential figure. He played a key behind-the-scenes role in the crafting of the Aug. 9 "Broken Trust" opinion piece in the Star-Bulletin that spurred Gov. Ben Cayetano to order an investigation of the $10 billion Bishop Estate, one of the nation's largest charitable trusts. http://archives.starbulletin.com/specials/bishop/story2.html

"It was only after three meetings with Ed over pancakes at the Like Like Drive Inn that I started to see 'the whole picture,'" said University of Hawaii law Professor Randall Roth, one of the five authors of the essay. "Without his guidance, the project might never have gotten off the ground."

He provided needed insight

Nakamura provided insight into how things worked. "It was an insider's look at the Democratic power structure," Roth said. "He was fed up with the way things have evolved. He felt some people in recent years betrayed what the ideals of the Democratic revolution (of the 1950s) were all about. They were watching out for themselves rather than the ideals of their predecessors."

Roth added: "In his quiet but firm way, Ed always followed his conscience, even when that was certain to displease powerful people."

In 1993, Nakamura opposed then-Gov. John Waihee's nomination of attorney Sharon Himeno to the state Supreme Court, which drew fire because of her political connections and because her law firm represented her father, developer Stanley Himeno, in a questionable business deal involving the state pension fund.

Nakamura advised attorneys who publicly opposed Himeno's nomination, which was rejected by the Senate.

Resigned from board

That same year, Nakamura testified in the Senate's special investigation into the management of the state pension fund. He said that during his tenure as a fund trustee, a golf course deal was pushed by the then-chairman of the Employees' Retirement System, Gordon Uyeda, that would have provided a financial windfall for Uyeda's friend, developer Rodney Inaba.

When the pension board voted to purchase the Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley, Calif., Nakamura resigned in protest.

But the $31 million deal quickly unraveled with Waihee apparently playing a role in getting trustees to abandon the project.

A self-described liberal

Nakamura was born in Honolulu on Oct. 9, 1922, the son of immigrant laborers. A self-described liberal, he was one of the many Japanese-American veterans of World War II who went to college on the GI bill and joined the Democratic Party, helping it transform Hawaii into a society that offered more educational and employment opportunities for non-Caucasians.

Although he considered himself simply a "foot soldier" in the campaigns of John Burns, who would eventually become governor, many considered Nakamura to be a key architect of the Democratic revolution.

After graduating from the University of Chicago law school in 1951, in the same class with U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, Nakamura joined Bouslog & Symonds, then the only labor law firm in Hawaii at a time when lawyers were fearful of representing workers. It was when McCarthyism fanned congressional investigations into organized labor in search of "subversive activities."

He was 'model attorney'

Martha Nakamura remembers that when her husband, who also served as a University of Hawaii regent, was asked to describe himself, "He always said he was a labor lawyer for 28 years. He always said that first."

Attorney Jared Jossem, former state Republican Party chairman who was Nakamura's legal adversary in about 50 cases, said: "He was a model attorney who represented his clients effectively and brilliantly.

"In developing proposals to legally change labor-management relations, he quietly worked the political side to get his clients' and his vision into legislation. He combined intellectual power with inordinate political skills."

Centrist view as justice

When Nakamura joined the high court, there were fears that he would be one-sided since he was a labor attorney with no prior experience on the bench. But that did not happen.

"As a justice, he adopted a more centrist view balancing the specific interests of unions and employers," Jossem said.

One of the high court's key decisions authored by Nakamura declared that an employer's written handbooks and policies can be considered binding contracts under certain circumstances. That protects workers not covered by collective-bargaining agreements or employment contracts.

Retired state appellate Judge Walter Heen, another co-author of the "Broken Trust" opinion piece, said: "Justice Nakamura will stand out in the history of Hawaii as one of its finest legal minds and one who possessed the highest concern for principle. His opinions reflect both those characteristics."

Retired Hawaii Supreme Court Chief Justice William Richardson, who served with Nakamura, all of the current justices, U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, who served with Nakamura in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Gov. Ben Cayetano and attorney James King, Nakamura's former law partner, all praised Nakamura for his honesty, integrity and wisdom.

A mentor to many

Scores of legal professionals as old as the 69-year-old Heen and as young as 33-year-old state Rep. Scott Saiki (D, Moiliili) claim Nakamura as their mentor.

"I think he had so much integrity and wisdom, and he led by example," said Saiki.

Nakamura's nephew, attorney James Kawashima, 31, added: "He was very principled and always ethical. Sometimes that's rare in people and lawyers both."...

http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/09/12/news/story3.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-26-09): Undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer, Sharon Himeno, Bishop Museum, Dan Inouye, Timothy Johns, Donna Tanoue, Haunani Apoliona, The Nature Conservancy, Suzanne Case, Faye Kurren, Mark Polivka, Dee Jay Mailer, Nainoa Thompson, Robert Alm, Neil Hannahs, Michael Chun, etc:

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/images/pdf/Annual_report.pdf

~ ~ ~NEW DISCOVERY (04-17-09): More factual evidence of fraud, bad faith, theft, racketeering, destruction of evidence, violation of civil rights, undisclosed conflicts of interest, etc:

April 17, 2009

Fannie Mae CEO to Run Bank Bailout

By JIM KUHNHENN, AP

WASHINGTON (April 17) - The White House turned to an experienced former investment banker Friday to run the federal government's $700 billion bank rescue effort, selecting the head of mortgage giant Fannie Mae as an assistant Treasury secretary.

Herbert Allison Jr., Fannie Mae's president and CEO, will replace Neel Kashkari, a holdover from the Bush administration.

Allison, who must be confirmed by the Senate, would bear the title of assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability and counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

He would be in charge of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the fund that has injected billions of dollars into banks in hopes of unclogging credit. He would inherit a program that has been sharply criticized in Congress and which banks have come to view warily because of the restrictions attached to receipt of its funds.

President Barack Obama's administration has been slowly filling Treasury positions, hindered by candidates who have either withdrawn from consideration or been caught up in the vetting process.

Fannie Mae, seized by federal regulators in September, is closely overseen by federal regulators, making the chief executive's job tough to fill in the private sector. The company, therefore, appears likely to turn to an insider as Allison's replacement.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Fannie Mae was expected to name Michael J. Williams, the company's chief operating officer and a longtime executive as Allison's replacement. Fannie Mae declined to comment.

Allison's selection presents the administration with yet another challenge. If Allison is confirmed, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be without chief executives. David Moffett, formerly Freddie Mac's CEO, resigned in March.

In Allison, the White House selected a former Merrill Lynch investment banker who became chairman of the retirement fund manager TIAA-CREF. Allison served as finance chief for John McCain's 2000 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. But politically, Allison has shown himself to be bipartisan in his allegiances, contributing to both Democrats and Republicans, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Since taking over in September at Fannie Mae, where he took no salary, Allison, the son of an FBI agent, developed a reputation for open-mindedness with consumer advocates, even those who have had an a contentious relationship with the giant company.

"Mr. Allison is well-positioned to lead the TARP," said Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, an industry group. "He has a wealth of experience with buying, selling, protecting, and managing assets to protect the taxpayer investment and strengthen the economy."

Some industry officials said that by pulling Allison away from Fannie Mae, the White House was signaling that TARP would remain a viable component of the government's stabilization efforts for the financial industry, even in the face of hostile lawmakers and wary bankers.

Bert Ely, a banking industry consultant, said Allison has the advantages of being a known quantity to the Obama administration who is "much more of a financial heavyweight" than Kashkari.

Plus, he said, the new job would likely be more of a challenge than running Fannie and Freddie, which have been operating under tight government oversight since last September. "In this new situation, he's going to be much more of a policy maker," Ely said. "I can understand why he would want to take it."

http://money.aol.com/article/fannie-mae-ceo-new-bailout-chief/433738

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NEW DISCOVERY (04/14/09): More undisclosed conflicts-of-interest between David C. Farmer, Steven Guttman, Paul Lynch, Judge Alan Kay, Dan Case, etc.:

February 27, 2009

Honolulu law firm files Chapter 11 bankruptcy

All but one of its seven attorneys leave, two start their own law firms

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Linda Chiem

Honolulu law firm Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and saw all but one of its attorneys leave the firm this week.

The general practice and civil litigation firm, which employed seven attorneys, filed for bankruptcy reorganization on Feb. 17.

Since then, partners Wesley Ichida, William F. Thompson III and Maile Hirota have left the firm. Two of them have started new firms, according to records with the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

The bankruptcy filing, signed by Paul A. Lynch as president of the firm, lists Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota’s assets at more than $500,000 and debts at more than $300,000.

The case is scheduled for a March 16 hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert J. Faris. Within days of the bankruptcy filing, the trustee overseeing the case filed a motion to have it dismissed because the petition was missing a key document, the corporate resolution that is supposed to show that the firm’s entire board of directors - the four partners — authorized the filing.

Attorney Steven Guttman of the Honolulu law firm Kessner Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga said the board didn’t sign off on the filing. He was hired by Ichida and Horita to represent them in the bankruptcy case.

“Mr. Ichida, Mr. Thompson and Ms. Hirota do not support the petition filed by Mr. Lynch,” Guttman told PBN. He said the former partners won’t oppose the motion to dismiss the case.

According to the bankruptcy filing, the law firm’s biggest creditor is ReOrient8 LLC, owed $82,000. Until Feb. 13, Wesley Ichida was listed as the agent for the company, according to state DCCA records, which do not include a description of ReOrient8’s business purpose.

The filing also lists $15,000 owed to Douglas Emmett for the lease on the law firm’s 14th floor offices at 1132 Bishop St. in downtown Honolulu, about $13,500 owed to Marsh & McLennan Cos. for insurance and thousands of dollars owed to companies such as Hawaiian Telcom, Martindale-Hubbell and LexisNexis.

Lynch could not be reached for comment.

Ichida, Thompson and Hirota declined to discuss the bankruptcy filing and their decisions to leave the firm, which was incorporated in 1999.

State DCCA records show that Ichida and Hirota each have established and registered new limited liability law companies in recent weeks. Hirota established Hirota & Associates on Feb. 9.

Ichida joined with another of the firm’s attorneys, Ann Kemp, and established Ichida, Kemp on Feb. 12.

Hirota said another former Lynch attorney, Tony Tran, joined her firm.

Former Lynch attorney Courtney Naso left to work for another law firm.

J. Gregory Turnbull, who was of counsel to the Lynch firm, also has left.

The Hawaii Rules for Professional Conduct prohibit law firms from continuing to use the name of a partner who has left the firm and is actively practicing law elsewhere. It could not be immediately determined how the former Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota firm will be renamed.

The firm specialized in civil litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, construction, securities, insurance defense, immigration and family law, and adoptions, according to its Web site.

# # #

LYNCH, ICHIDA, THOMPSON & HIROTA

A Law Corporation

1132 Bishop Street, Suite 1405

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Telephone: 808-528-0100

Fax: 808-528-4997

E-Mail: mail@loio.com

Website: www.loio.com

Established: 1999

Insurance Defense, Automobile, Product Liability, Professional Liability, Casualty, Coverage Issues, Aviation, Bad Faith, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Securities, Commercial Law, Construction Litigation, Professional Errors and Omissions, Subrogation, Investigation and Adjustment

Firm Profile: Lynch, Ichida, Thompson & Hirota, A Law Corporation (formerly of the Honolulu Office of Case & Lynch and Lynch & Farmer), as of February 1, 1999, formed a law corporation which presently consists of four, general principals, Paul A. Lynch, Wesley W. Ichida, William F. Thompson III, and Maile M. Hirota; two associates, Ann C. Kemp and Tony Tran, and one of counsel, J. Gregory Turnbull.

Language proficiencies in the firm include Tagalog, Ilocano, and Japanese. Our principal office is located in Honolulu, with statewide access to legal services on each of the island counties.

The firm engages in the general practice of law including, civil litigation, emphasizing collections, real property, construction, admiralty, securities, professional errors and omissions, insurance defense, family law, immigration, nationality and international law (including adoptions).

Insurance Company Clients

Aetna Casualty and Surety Company               Great American E&S Insurance Company

Hartford Holdings, Inc.               Jefferson Pilot Financial Insurance Company Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company               Midland National Life Insurance Company New York Life Insurance Company               North American Company for Life and Health Insurance Universal Underwriters Group               Zurich American Insurance Group

Non-Insurance Company Clients AAO Services, Inc.               Adventist Risk Management, Inc.  Brown Jordan International, Inc.               Dell Computer Corporation  HMS Insurance Agency, Inc.               National Mortgage & Finance Co., Ltd. Peerless Coffee Company, Inc.               Trivest Partners  Whirlpool Corporation               Wiss Janney Elstner Associates, Inc. ~ ~ ~

NEW DISCOVERY (04/17/09); More factual evidence of fraud, racketeering, bad faith, and undisclosed conflicts of interest, etc. between David Farmer, Ben Cayetano, Earl Anzai, Lyn Anzai, Robin Campaniano, Edward Liddy, Goldman Sachs, Barack Obama, Henry Paulson, The Nature Conservancy, The Hawaii Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Suzanne Case, Peter Savio, Faye Kurren, Haunani Apoliona, OHA, Robert Rubin, Kamehameha Schools, Nathan Aipa, Bishop Museum, William Simon, HonFed, Investors Equity Life Insurance Co., Bank of Hawaii, Central Pacific Bank, Colbert Matsumoto, Dan Inouye, AIG, CV Starr, Hank Greenberg, ACE Insurance, Ace Greenberg, Chubb Group, Marsh & McLennan, Rocco Sansone, Mercer Consulting, Aloha Airlines, Bill Clinton, Yucaipa, Hawaiian Airlines, Douglas Ing, Henry Peters, Judge Rey Graulty, Judge Barry Kurren, Judge Robert Faris, etc:

April 17, 2009

A.I.G. Chief Owns Significant
Stake in Goldman

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, New York Times

Edward M. Liddy, the dollar-a-year chief executive leading the American International Group since its bailout last fall, still owns a significant stake in Goldman Sachs, one of the insurer’s trading partners that was made whole by the government bailout of A.I.G.

Mr. Liddy earned most of his holdings in Goldman, worth more than $3 million total, as compensation for serving on the bank’s board and its audit committee until he stepped down in September to take the job at A.I.G. He moved to A.I.G. at the request of Henry M. Paulson Jr., then the Treasury secretary and a former Goldman director.

Details about his holdings were disclosed in Goldman’s proxy statement and confirmed by an A.I.G. spokeswoman, who said they constituted “a small percentage of his total net worth.” Mr. Liddy had already owned some stock in Goldman Sachs before joining its board in 2003.

He has said that he considers his work at A.I.G. to be a public service, performed on behalf of the taxpayers, who ended up with nearly 80 percent of the insurance company. His goal is to dismantle the company and sell its operating units, using the proceeds to pay back the rescue loans. On Thursday, A.I.G. said it had sold its car insurance unit, 21st Century Insurance, to the Zurich Financial Services Group for $1.9 billion.

Along the way, Mr. Liddy has clearly disclosed that A.I.G. was serving as a conduit, with much of the rescue money passing through and ending up in the hands of A.I.G.’s trading partners.

Goldman has said in the past that it had collateral and hedges to reduce the risk of its exposure to A.I.G.

Still, his stake could represent a potential conflict and is likely to reignite questions about Goldman’s involvement in A.I.G., and about why taxpayer money was used to shield A.I.G.’s trading partners from losses, when asset values plunged everywhere and most investors suffered greatly.

Had A.I.G. simply declared bankruptcy, the financial institutions doing business with it would have ended up in court, as they did in the case of Lehman Brothers, fighting to get pennies on the dollar for their claims.

Instead, Goldman Sachs received $13 billion of the Federal Reserve’s rescue money to close out various contracts it had outstanding with A.I.G. It was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the government rescue.

A spokeswoman for A.I.G., Christina Pretto, dismissed any suggestion that Mr. Liddy’s financial ties to Goldman might have shaped his actions at A.I.G.

“A.I.G. is a large institution that engages in standard commercial activity with companies all over the world,” Ms. Pretto said. “These activities are handled in the normal, day-to-day course of business and rarely, if ever, rise to the level of the C.E.O.”

She said in particular that Mr. Liddy was not involved in the discussions of how to close out the contracts of A.I.G.’s counterparties in derivatives and other forms of trading.

“Discussions regarding these matters were handled exclusively by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,” Ms. Pretto said.

According to Goldman’s proxy, Mr. Liddy holds 18,244 units of restricted stock, which would be worth about $2.2 million if they were sold at today’s market price. The rest of his holdings are in common stock. Restricted stock cannot be sold without incurring significant tax penalties, but the proxy said that Mr. Liddy’s restricted units would be converted to common shares on May 9.

Officials at the Fed, which initiated the bailout of A.I.G. last September, have said they were not happy about having to pour public resources into private sector companies, but felt that they had to do so to avoid a chain of losses at financial institutions all over the world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/business/17liddy.html?_r=1&em

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NEW DISCOVERY (04/02/09): Major undisclosed conflicts of interest for Trustee David C. Farmer:

April 2, 2009

Subject: CV05-00030 - U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee, David C. Farmer, Successor Trustee vs. Bobby N. Harmon - Exhibit: "Book Review: Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation in America's Largest Charitable Trust, by David C. Farmer - Hawaii Bar Journal, July 2006" & Witness: David C. Farmer

From: Bobby N. Harmon

To: President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, David C. Farmer, Steven Guttman, Carol Muranaka, Judge David Ezra, Judge Kevin Chang, Judge Barry Kurren...

References:

www.kycbs.net/Broken-Trust-Book-Review-by-David-Farmer.pdf

www.kycbs.net/Broken-Trust-Book.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Farmer-David.htm

April 2, 2009

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Mr. Farmer; Mr. Guttman; Ms. Muranaka; Judge Ezra, Judge Chang, Judge Kurren, and All Concerned:

Due to the new discovery of material facts in this case, I am adding the subject Exhibit which relates to your lawsuit that violates my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and a Fair Trial by a jury of my peers, and Federal and Hawaii Anti-SLAPP statutes.

In view of all the facts that I have presented in this and hundreds of other Exhibits and witness descriptions, it is beyond comprehension that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Assistant U.S. Trustees Curtis Ching, Gayle Lau and Carol Muranaka; Judges Eden Hifo (fka Bambi Weil), Kevin Chang, David Ezra, Barry Kurren, Lloyd King and Robert Faris, and Trustees Mary Lou Woo, James Nicholson and David C. Farmer; the American Arbitration Association arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, and attorney Steven Guttman can still claim that they were non-conflicted, impartial, and unbiased in this case.

In spite of all this factual evidence, however, I am again asking that we attempt to reach a global settlement of this matter through confidential negotiation or mediation rather than continuing these costly and seemingly-endless court proceedings.

If you still are NOT willing to attempt to negotiate or mediate a settlement, then I ask that you do your required review this new Exhibit in accordance with Judge Ezra's Order, and advise me if you find it contains any so-called "protected subject matter", and whether or not you intend to OBJECT to my filing a Motion to reopen this case.

Mr. Farmer, I respectfully request your immediate reply. If I do not receive a response from you or your insurance carrier within 15 days, I will assume that you have found no "protected subject matter" in these updated pages, and that you will NOT file any objections to my Motion.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

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NEW DISCOVERY (03/30/09): Undisclosed conflicts of interest between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the United States Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustee, Curtis Ching, Carol Muranaka, Guido Giacometti, Susan Tius, Sukamto Sia, Bank of Honolulu, Diane Plotts, Bob Awana, Linda Lingle, Citigroup, Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton, John Waihee, Ben Cayetano, Goldman Sachs, Colbert Matsumoto, Henry Peters, Matsuo Takabuki, Richard Wong, Jeff Stone, Oswald Stender, Gerard Jervis, Lokelani Lindsey, Nathan Aipa, Colleen Wong, Louanne Kam, John Candon, Clifford Laughton, Timothy Johns, Bishop Museum, Nainoa Thompson, Mark Polivka, Judge Eden Elizabeth Hifo (fka Bambi Weil), Judge Lloyd King, Judge Robert Faris, Judge David A. Ezra, Judge Barry Kurren, Mary Lou Woo, James B. Nicholson, David C. Farmer, Steven Guttman, etc.:

August 24, 2000

Executive Centre
units auctioned
for $4 mil

Ownership of the properties
could change during
another round of bids

By Peter Wagner, Star-Bulletin

A Nevada investor has outbid Citibank on 32 residential and two commercial units at Executive Centre, the downtown high rise that once belonged to Indonesian investor Sukamto Sia.

But with court confirmation and another round of bids possibly ahead, ownership of the property is yet to be determined.

Clifford Laughton, president of the Reno-based Nevada Holdings Ltd. and chief executive at Honolulu-based satellite company Columbia Communications Corp., yesterday made the winning bid of $4,000,100.

Laughton's bid topped a $4 million offer by Citibank N.A., the only other bidder at a foreclosure auction at the state courthouse yesterday.

The leasehold properties include 31 residential units, a penthouse, two commercial spaces occupied by Sprint Hawaii and Fujikami Florist and 65 parking stalls.

The heavily mortgaged 41-story building, at 1088 Bishop Street also includes a 120-room Aston hotel, retail outlets including Long's Drugs and Ross Dress For Less and nearly 300 residential units.

The entire property was appraised last year at $39.5 million.

Citibank, the major creditor in a foreclosure action against one of Sia's company's, MKS Executive Partners, took possession last month of most of the 41-story building in a complex bankruptcy deal in which Sia's estate will receive about $500,000.

Citibank affiliate EXCT L.P. took ownership of about 400 units on July 28.

Sia, currently in Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, originally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in November 1998.

While Citibank yesterday allowed itself to be outbid by $100, the sale is far from over. Under rules of the foreclosure, new bids may be entertained at confirmation but must be at least 5 percent above the auction price.

Foreclosure commissioner John Candon said at least three parties who were silent during yesterday's auction have asked when the confirmation hearing would be. No date has been set.

Laughton yesterday said he would likely honor existing leases at Executive Centre if he remains the high bidder. He said the units are a good investment because of depressed property values and a strong rental market in the downtown area.

While Executive Centre was once a key holding of Sia in Honolulu, the bankruptcy trustee was unable to liquidate the property for creditors because Sia held no equity in it.

His ownership in the building was through MKS Executive Partners, one of his numerous companies.

The 40-year-old businessman owes nearly $300 million to casinos, banks and creditors around the world.

www.archives.starbulletin.com/2000/08/24/business/story1.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (03-15-09): More factual evidence of fraud, bad faith, and undisclosed professional and financial conflicts of interest of Trustee David C. Farmer, Ron Sakamoto, Gerard Jervis, Kamehameha Schools, Hung Wo Ching, Louise Ing, Aloha Airlines, David Banmiller, Ron Burkle, Yucaipa, Bill Clinton, Judge Robert Faris, etc.:

March 15, 2009

Bill Clinton severs ties with Yucaipa: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton has severed his connections to Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. and will not receive a payment once estimated to be up to $20 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The Journal said Clinton decided not to claim additional money from Yucaipa earlier this year.

It said people familiar with the matter had thought last year that the payment could have been as much as $20 million. However, the size of the possible payment might have fallen because of the recent economic turmoil.

Clinton started distancing himself from Yucaipa, a private equity firm run by his friend Burkle, in 2007 because Hillary Clinton was planning a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the report.

Hillary Clinton won U.S. Senate approval as secretary of state in January despite renewed Republican concerns about potential conflicts of interest created by her husband's foreign fund-raising.

Spokesmen for Clinton and Yucaipa could not be immediately reached for comment.

(Reporting by Michael Erman; Editing by Kim Coghill)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090316/pl_nm/us_clinton_yucaipa_1

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NEW DISCOVERY (03-01-09): Links to some of the undisclosed conflicts of interest of Trustee David C. Farmer in this case:

www.zoominfo.com/Search/ReferencesView.aspx?PersonID=139713972

and/or

http://www.kycbs.net/Zoominfo-Farmer-David.mht

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NEW DISCOVERY (02-25-09): More factual evidence of fraud, bad faith, and undisclosed professional and financial conflicts of interest of Trustee David C. Farmer and Ron Sakamoto, Gerard Jervis, Kamehameha Schools, Hung Wo Ching, Louise Ing, Aloha Airlines, David Banmiller, Ron Burkle, Yucaipa, Bill Clinton, Judge Robert Faris, etc.

Aloha CEO Banmiller's statement to Bankruptcy Court

Editor's note: Here is the statement that David Banmiller, president and chief executive officer of Aloha Airlines, read to the federal Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday after the company's reorganization plan was confirmed by Judge Robert Faris:

THANK YOU, Your Honor, for allowing me this opportunity to address the court. If you perceive a softness in my tone, and perhaps a slip of the tongue here and there, it relates in part to a lack of sleep -- due in part to Your Honor's challenging words of yesterday. I must say, though, that sleep is overrated.

I will not take up much of the court's time, Your Honor, but the significance of this moment in the evolution of Aloha Airlines deserves comment.

In the 60-year history of this fine company, Aloha and its employees have never faced greater challenges: an industry in chaos, 50 percent of U.S. airlines in bankruptcy, unbridled competition, and oil at unprecedented levels.

The employees and local ownership of Aloha have continuously stepped forward, making contribution after contribution for its very survival. Had it not been for such efforts, we would not be standing before you today.

AS YOU KNOW, I am a relative newcomer and have been through a few "economic Vietnams" in this industry, but none as challenging, certainly sometimes frustrating, but on the whole no more satisfying than this experience, and I have enormous respect for everyone involved.

It is always risky to highlight certain individuals and situations in such a case, but I have chosen to take the risk because this accomplishment is all about teamwork, sensitivity when needed, and most of all, focus on the end game with extraordinary people.

We have asked our employees and their union leaders three times in the last several years to step up to tough stuff. In every instance, they made the tough decisions. Their willingness to make sacrifices while maintaining top-quality service to our valued customers, says volumes about the Aloha spirit within the heart and soul of these fine people.

I particularly wish to thank:

» Dave Bird, chairman of (the master executive council for the Air Line Pilots Association);

» Peggy Gordon, president of (the Association of Flight Attendants/Communications Workers of America);

» Randy Kauhane, assistant general chairman of (the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers 141);

» Ken Boon, assistant general chairman of IAM 142;

» David Durkin, president of (the Transport Workers Union).

» The shareholders, and in particular the Chings and Ings, have a long and cherished history with this company. When I joined, I asked to be given the latitude to make the tough decisions without undue influence or avoidance of the myriad of business decisions that had to be made.

The shareholders were true to their word, and allowed the management team to execute, and they put cash behind their words.

» Our management team, some new but with an outstanding support staff comprised of a team of veterans in this business, many who are residents of this state, hung in there, put up with my idiosyncrasies and saw the ranks of VPs dwindle, dynamically increasing their workload -- with never a complaint.

» Hawaii's federal-, state- and county-elected officials, and all of our vendors, who have reached out during this past year. ... Without their support, we also would not have succeeded in getting this far. To them we owe thanks.

» Our customers, for their loyalty bringing cash in the door with every ticket sale. They provided the hope for our company to get through each day.

» Our team of professionals, led by Paul Singerman of Berger Singerman; Char Sakamoto Ishii Lum & Ching led by Betty Ishii; the Giuliani Group led by Marc Bilbao; our lead banker First Hawaiian Bank led by Don Horner; our local counsels Don Gelber and David Farmer; the unsecured creditors' committee chaired by Capt. Michael Feeney and guided by lead counsel Brett Miller; and Sheldon Kline of Thelen Reid.

» And many, many more who made this happen, we thank you.

MY COMMENTS would be far from complete without recognizing the presence of both Richard d'Abo of Yucaipa and Willie Gault of Aloha Aviation Investment Group. Without their financial commitment and support, this company would not be here, especially considering the rejections we faced in the investment community. I personally thank them, as well as Ron Burkle, for their confidence in the employees of this fine company.

And finally, Your Honor, you, too, have made the tough calls, sprinkling wisdom and experience with at times a level of common sense, humor and sensitivity that does your profession honor. You should take great pride, Your Honor, if I am permitted to say, in what has gone on this past year. Hopefully, this will be your last airline case in the islands.

And now, I assume you can renew your AlohaPass membership and continue to be one of our most-valued customers.

God bless.

www.archives.starbulletin.com/2005/12/04/business/story03.html ~ ~ ~

NEW DISCOVERY (02-04-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer, James Nicholson, Steven Guttman, Paul Alston, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mucasey, Eric Holder, and other witnesses in this case:

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June 26, 2008

Pardongate Is The Least of
Eric Holder’s Sins

© Jack Cashill, www.WorldNetDaily.com

“I was wondering when you were going to call me,” so said the irrepressible Nolanda Butler Hill when I phoned last week.

She knew precisely what item of news had prompted me to call: the revelation that Barack Obama had selected Clinton Deputy Attorney General and Ron Brown protege, Eric Holder, to help vet his vice presidential candidates.

As the confidante and business partner of the late Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Hill knows from personal experience that Holder’s sins go well beyond his seamy role in the Marc Rich pardon scandal.

In the way of background, in May 1995, Clinton’s unpredictable Attorney General Janet Reno called for an independent counsel to assess whether Ron Brown had “accepted things of value” from Hill in exchange for his influence.

Reno’s pursuit of Brown did not shock either of them. He had been the subject of an inquiry for months. Targeting Hill, however, had no precedent, and it unnerved them both.

By statute, the independent counsel law applied only to political and government figures. “It was unlawful,” says Hill of her own targeting, “I was the only such person in history.”

In time, the independent counsel also targeted Brown’s son, Michael, for laundering money to his father through a scam minority set aside deal with a sleazy pair of Asian-American fundraisers. In Hill’s words, Michael “was as guilty as a goose.”

Hill and Brown both understood that she was being targeted in the hopes that she would roll over on Brown. Her condition for not doing so was that Brown share with her his every point of vulnerability.

Nowhere was Brown more vulnerable than in his unwelcome role as chief bagman for the Clintons’ relentless and often illicit fundraising in the run-up to the 1996 election.

Hill learned virtually every unseemly detail--from Brown’s go-between work with the Chicoms and their American vendors to his wholesale distribution of walking around money to Democratic race hustlers. As Brown understood, Hill knew way too much.

Even before his own mysterious death, Brown worried openly about her life and safety. He went so far as to call Hill’s sister, with whom she stayed from time to time, and insist Hill not be allowed to go out jogging alone.

As soon as Brown died, the independent counsel ceased the investigation into his illicit activities. As to Michael, he pled guilty to a single misdemeanor, accepted a small fine, and was out playing golf with the president a month later.

Not surprisingly, however, the Justice Department kept the pressure on the outspoken Hill, still deeply troubled by the circumstances surrounding Brown’s death.

Hill took heart when, in July 1997, President Clinton appointed Holder to replace Jamie Gorelick as Deputy Attorney General. Although ostensibly second in command, the Deputy AG was the real power in Justice, the Clinton equivalent of a Soviet “political officer.”

Hill knew Holder through Brown, who had been instrumental in getting him his previous job as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

She and her attorney wasted no time in contacting Holder at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, which was held that year in San Francisco in early August.

Holder, however, did not get to be Deputy AG by being naïve. “The train is already going down the tracks,” he explained to Hill. “It will take your cooperation to stop it.”

The “train” in question was a D.C. grand jury, which was being led to indict Hill. The “cooperation” meant Hill keeping her mouth shut.

Hill clarifies, “He [Holder] told me and my attorney that if I told what I knew about election fundraising I would be indicted.”

Holder was as good as his word. On March 13, 1998, ten days before Hill was to testify in a suit brought by Judicial Watch on the subject of Brown’s fundraising, the Clinton Justice Department indicted Hill on trumped up charges of fraud and tax evasion.

The willfully blind lead of the New York Times called the indictment “a vivid example of how an investigation can outlive its target.”

Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch knew better. In a motion to the court, he would write, “The timing of these events is neither accidental nor coincidental. Ms. Hill’s indictment was likely an effort to retaliate against her and deter her from giving any further damaging testimony at the March 23, 1998 hearing.”

At White House bidding, Holder had Hill indicted to shut her up, and he succeeded. Anxious, alone, and broke, facing as many as seventy years in prison if convicted, Hill chose to negotiate a deal.

On June 15, 1999, a day before her fifty-fifth birthday, she reported to a halfway house in Seagoville, Texas, her silence at least temporarily assured.

As James Sanders, my partner on the TWA 800 investigation, can attest, silencing whistleblowers through bogus prosecution was the modus operandi in the Holder era. Sanders and his wife Elizabeth were indicted and convicted on federal conspiracy charges on Holder’s watch.

Although generally appalled by the Clintons, Hill understands how betrayed they must feel when their very proteges desert them for Obama.

Holder did so early on. “Given Holder’s credentials,” the Chicago Tribune reported breathlessly in August 2007, “it isn’t outside the realm of possibility to suggest he could wind up the nation’s first African-American attorney general should Obama win the White House.”

Hill thinks she knows why Holder jumped ship. He was a key player in a racially exclusive cabal of DC insiders. “He’s so racist it’s not even funny,” she says of Holder, “not only racist but elitist.”

Still, no matter how compromised Holder might be, Obama can ill afford to dismiss him from his vice-presidential selection committee.

Obama has already had to dismiss one of the three selectors. If he dismisses a second, it will become absurdly obvious that the real problem is not Holder or Jim Johnson of Countrywide fame, but Mr. Obama himself

http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/pardongate.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (02-03-09): More undisclosed financial, professional and personal conflicts of interest between David C. Farmer and Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington & Harris; Steven Guttman; Ross Murakami; Arthur Andersen; Lorman Education Services, etc.

http://brochures.lorman.com/379717.pdf

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NEW DISCOVERY (01-08-09): More undisclosed financial, professional, political and personal conflicts of interest between David C. Farmer, Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum, Diane Plotts, Kirk Belsby, Chaminade University, Jean Rolles, Judge Patrick Yim, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Haunani Apoliona, Oswald Stender, Al Hee, Clayton Hee, The Nature Conservancy, Faye Kurren, Bank of Honolulu, Sukamto Sia, Bob Awana, Linda Lingle, Susan Todani, Ben Cayetano, John Waihee, Peter Apo, etc:

Subject: CV05-00030 - David C. Farmer vs. Harmon - Exhibit: "Honolulu awaits 'heritage area' status" - Honolulu Advertiser & Witness David Farmer

Thursday, January 8, 2009 7:53 AM

From: "bobby_n_harmon@yahoo.com" <bobby_n_harmon@yahoo.com>

To: "David Farmer" <farmerd001@hawaii.rr.com>, "Steven Guttman" <sguttman@kdubm.com>, "Carol K. Muranaka" <ustp.region15@usdoj.gov>, "Michael Mukasey" <AskDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "David A. Ezra" <theresa_lam@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Enforcement Division SEC" <enforcement@sec.gov>

Cc: "ACLU Hawaii" <office@acluhawaii.org>, "All Representatives" <reps@Capitol.hawaii.gov>, "All Senators" <sens@Capitol.hawaii.gov>, "Andrew Walden" <hfpeditor@email.com>, "Aon Insurance Managers" <mike_coulter@agl.aon.com>, "Arthur Rath" <imua@spamarrest.com>, "Barry M. Kurren" <richlyn_young@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Benjamin Kudo" <bkudo@imanakakudo.com>, "Bradley Tamm" <btamm@hawaii.rr.com>, "Carl Morton" <ethics@hawaiiethics.org>, "Charles Goodwin" <HONOLULU@FBI.GOV>, "Charles Hurd" <mcp@mediatehawaii.org>, "Dave Shapiro" <volcanicash@gmail.com>, "Dee Jay Mailer" <ksinfo@ksbe.edu>, "Dorothy Sellers" <hawaiiag@hawaii.gov>, "Executive Office for U.S. Trustees" <ustrustee.program@usdoj.gov>, "Hugh Jones" <hugh.r.jones@hawaii.gov>, "Insurance Division Fraud Branch" <insfraud@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "J C Shannon" <Hapa1234@aol.com>, "James B Nicholson" <jamesbnicholson@aol.com>, "James B. Farris" <Farrisj@adr.org>, "James Cribley" <jcribley@caselombardi.com>, "James Paul" <jpaul@pjpn.com>, "James Wriston" <jwriston@awlaw.com>, "Jeffrey Watanabe" <jwatanabe@wik.com>, "Jim Dooley" <jdooley@honoluluadvertiser.com>, "Jo Ann Uchida" <rico@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Joe Moore" <news@khon2.com>, "John D. Finnegan" <info@chubb.com>, "John Goemans" <wip@kamuela.com>, "Judge Lloyd King" <hib@hib.uscourts.gov>, "Judith Neustadter" <Judy@tiki.net>, "Judson Witham" <jurisnot2@yahoo.com>, "Ken Conklin" <ken_conklin@yahoo.com>, "Kenneth Hipp" <khipp@marrhipp.com>, "Kevin S.C. Chang" <shari_afuso@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Lawrence Reifurth" <dcca@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Linda Lingle" <governor.lingle@hawaii.gov>, "Lyn Flanigan Anzai" <lflanigan@hsba.org>, "Margery Bronster" <info@bchlaw.net>, "Marsh Affinity Group" <prosecure@marshpm.com>, "Michael N. Tanoue" <mtanoue@paclawgroup.com>, "Michelle Tucker" <michelle@sterlingandtucker.com>, "Nathan Aipa" <nathan@pitluck.com>, "Office of Inspector General Civil Rights Complaints" <inspector.general@usdoj.gov>, "Office of the U.S. Trustee District of Hawaii" <ustp.region15@usdoj.goV>, "Paul Alston" <palston@ahfi.com>, "Randall Roth" <rroth@hawaii.edu>, "Rick Daysog" <rdaysog@honoluluadvertiser.com>, "Robert Bruce Graham" <bgraham@awlaw.com>, "Robin Campaniano" <aigh001@aighawaii.com>, "Samuel P. King" <leslie_sai@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Susan Tius" <STius@rmhawaii.com>, "V K Durham" <vkdtdht@pionet.net>, "William K Slate" <Websitemail@adr.org>, "Jim Terrack" <tnthawaii@aol.com>, "Don Michak" <dmichak@journalinquirer.com>, "Rocco Sansone" <rocco.c.sansone@marsh.com>, "Ted Pettit" <tpettit@caselombardi.com>, "Mark Burch" <burch@hawaii.edu>, "Laura Thielen" <dlnr@hawaii.gov>, "Vaughn & Lynda Robinson" <ronpaulslcutah@yahoo.com>, "Peter Apo" <peterapocompany@gmail.com>, "Rebecca Christie" <rchristie4@bloomberg.net>, "Catbird" <the-catbird@hotmail.com>, "Mike Harmon" <mikeharmon@yahoo.com>, "Tom Flocco" <tom2@tomflocco.com>, "Real News" <thenewsman@ij.net>

Subject: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jun/02/ln/FP706020340.html

Dear Mr. Farmer; Mr. Guttman; Ms. Muranaka; Attorney General Mukasey, and All Concerned:

This is to inform you that I am adding the subject news article as a new Exhibit, as it provides clear factual evidence that David C. Farmer had undisclosed financial, political and personal conflicts of interest with other parties who are directly connected with this case . You will find further factual evidence on-line at:

http://hawaii.gov/sfca/artreachwinter2001.pdf

http://www.kycbs.net/Bank-of-Honolulu.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/Bishop-Museum.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/First-Hawaiian-Bank.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/Hawaiian-Electric.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Farmer-David.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Akaka-Daniel.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Awana-Bob.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Bush-George.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Cayetano-Ben.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Hirono-Mazie.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Plotts-Diane.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Lingle-Linda.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Harris-Jeremy.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Inouye-Dan.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Rewald-Ron.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Sia-Sukamto.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Waihee-John.htm

Please advise me immediately if this Exhibit contains any "PROTECTED SUBJECT MATTER" which is prohibited by ORDER of Judge David A. Ezra.