David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon
(Formerly Woo vs. Harmon & Nicholson vs. Harmon)
U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii
Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang
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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS
SHERIDAN ING
Address to be determined.
Sheridan Ing is a Hawaii developer, major owner of Aloha Airlines; client of Paul Alston, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing.
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January 4, 2005
Aloha Airlines in first bankruptcy hearing
Pacific Business News
Federal bankruptcy judge Robert Faris, now handling the bankruptcies of both Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines, said at Aloha's hearing Monday that he will take care to see that neither airline is put at a disadvantage by his rulings concerning the other.
That promise by Faris will reassure Aloha CEO David Banmiller, who has said he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Thursday in part because receivership had allowed Hawaiian to obtain a cost edge by renegotiating leases and other contracts.
Companies in Chapter 11 have the power to back out of contracts. The implicit threat of this allows them to renegotiate agreements with lenders and vendors, obtaining better terms. Outside of bankruptcy, a contract is a contract. Hawaiian has won new terms for jet leases, while Aloha has been locked into much higher rates.
Aloha is privately held by two local families, descendants of Hung Wo Ching and Sheridan Ing, and the airline revealed Monday that the families had offered to lend the airline $3 million in operating cash.
The parallel bankruptcies put Faris in the position of having unique access to operating information about the rival airlines. Ordinarily the airlines would not share such information with other. Both airlines operate a combination of interisland short-haul and trans-Pacific long-haul flights, though Aloha has more of the former and Hawaiian has more of the latter.
www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2005/01/03/daily22.html
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Deep Roots, Flowering Branches
Louise Ing knows from whence she came.
By Georgette Woo, Island Scene
Like a path up a misty mountainside in a Chinese watercolor, Louise Ing's family history wends and winds between China and the Islands, intertwining with Honolulu history along the way. Ing's great-grandparents, Dr. Khai Fai Li and Dr. Tai Heong Kong, immigrated to Hawai'i from Canton in 1896 and were Hawai'i's first licensed medical doctors of Chinese ancestry.
"My great-grandmother," Ing says, "was featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not because she'd delivered 6,000 babies." In 1899, her great-grandfather diagnosed and reported Honolulu's first case of bubonic plague. Chinatown was subsequently quarantined and burned down when a sanitary fire got out of control.
Their daughter, Ing's grandmother, met and married Dr. Richard Sia. The couple moved to Beijing, where Ing's mom and siblings were born, but returned to Honolulu during the Japanese occupation of China during World War II. "My grandfather got a teaching position at the University of Hawai'i," Ing says. "To get out of China, they told the authorities they'd come back in a year."
Ing's mother, Julia Sia, married real estate developer Sheridan Ing. As a highly successful investor, Sheridan wanted his daughter to follow in his footsteps. But business wasn't Louise's focus.
While attending Yale College, Ing protested against the Vietnam War and supported civil rights. After completing her undergraduate degree, she enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. "I was part of a group who entered law school thinking we'd change the world," she says.
Upon graduating, Ing returned to Honolulu and spent her first year clerking for Judge Samuel King. "That was a great year," Ing says. "It demystified the process and gave me a feel for courtroom work."
As Ing's career progressed, she became partner in a small firm. When the firm broke up in 1991, she and three of the other attorneys founded Alston, Hunt, Floyd and Ing, which currently employs more than 40 lawyers. Ing practices business and employment litigation, dispute resolution, and counseling.
"As a young lawyer," Ing says, "I'd complain about the long hours. And my father would tell me, 'Face it! You're going to have to work really hard until you're in your 40s.' And I'd think I couldn't last. Then, before I knew it, I was past it!"
As she neared mid-life, Ing decided to get into top condition. She began with hula classes at the YWCA, then added regular workouts at a gym. "It's helped me feel younger and more energized," she says.
Another activity that adds balance to Ing's life is serving on the boards for various organizations, including HMSA. It feels good, she says, to contribute to an organization's growth and well-being, and it helps her stay in tune with the community. "I also get to meet a wide variety of people I'd never encounter doing legal work," she says.
The experience has confirmed lessons she's learned from years of legal work. "Things are usually more complicated than they seem," she says. "When a big case hits the papers or there's an attention-grabbing headline about HMSA, you have to be a skeptic and get all the facts before you draw conclusions. It's been interesting learning the real story behind the news stories and the real issues involved. I'm impressed with the dedication and commitment of the people working for HMSA."
Over the years, Ing says, her legal work has tempered her idealism by teaching her to reserve judgment until she has all the facts. "With more information comes greater understanding," she says.
http://www.islandscene.com/Article.aspx?id=2500
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June 1, 2001
Committee Report No. 01-101
Honorable Chair and Members
of the County Council
County of Maui
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii
Chair and Members:
Your Land Use Committee, having met on May 14, 2001, makes reference to County
Communication No. 01-128, from the Planning Director, transmitting a proposed bill
entitled “A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING A CONDITIONAL PERMIT
TO CONSTRUCT A PARKING LOT IN THE R-2 RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT FOR
PROPERTY SITUATED AT TMK 3-9-03:16, KIHEI, MAUI, HAWAII” and other
related documents.
The purpose of the proposed bill is to amend a Conditional Permit (Ordinance
No. 1735, as amended by Ordinance No. 1802) relating to a parking lot for the
Kukui Mall Shopping Center in the R-2 Residential District for property located at
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii (TMK: 3-9-03:16) as follows: (1) the Conditional
Permit's expiration date shall be extended from June 14, 2003 to June 14, 2006;
and (2) the restriction on the use of parking lot to "excess" parking only shall be
deleted.
Your Committee notes that the Maui Planning Commission held a public hearing
and meeting on the Conditional Permit application on April 10, 2001. After
reviewing the findings presented in the document entitled “MAUI PLANNING
DEPARTMENT’S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION TO THE MAUI
PLANNING COMMISSION APRIL 10, 2001 MEETING”, the Commission
voted to recommend approval....
At its meeting, your Committee met with the Planning Director; a Staff
Planner from the Department of Planning; a Deputy Corporation Counsel; and
Gwen Ohashi Hiraga, consultant for the applicants, Sheridan Ing Hawaii Partners
and Olomana Land Investments....
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Sheridan Ing is expected to testify regarding his business, professional, personal and political relationships with Louise Ing, Paul Alston, Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate, Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Paul Alston, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Maui County Committee of the Whole, Earl Anzai, Lyn Anzai, Aloha Airlines, David Banmiller, Joshua Gotbaum, Lazard Freres, Mercer Consulting Services, Judge Robert Faris, Guido Giacometti, Susan Tius, Curtis Ching, Carol Muranaka, Gayle Lau, James Nicholson, David Farmer, Trent Thoms, Colbert Matsumoto, and others to be named upon discovery.
Internet References:
Documents, Letters, News Articles and Related Links
http://www.islandscene.com/Article.aspx?id=2500
http://www.afaaloha.com/default.asp?id=1
http://www.afaaloha.com/default.asp?id=128
www.kycbs.net/Bankruptcy-Buzzards.htm
www.kycbs.net/Hawaiian-Air.htm
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