U.S. Dept of Justice, David C. Farmer, Trustee vs. Bobby N. Harmon

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

FAYE WATANABE KURREN

Address to be determined.

Former President, Tesoro Hawaii; President & CEO, Hawaii Dental Services (HDS); Chair, University of Hawaii Foundation Board of Trustees; Trustee, The Nature Conservancy; Director, First Hawaiian Bank; Director, First Insurance Company of Hawaii, Inc; a graduate of Punahou School; William S. Richardson School of Law graduate, 1979 (classmate of former Bishop Estate trustee Gerard A. Jervis and Judge Reynaldo D. Graulty); wife of Judge Barry Kurren.

Tesoro Hawaii leases commercial properties from Kamehameha Schools, and may supply petroleum products to Kamehameha’s subsidiary, Paradise Petroleum, dba Alii Petroleum.

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"ZOOMING IN ON FAYE W. KURREN" - (An Exhibit in CV05-00030 - U.S. Dept of Justice vs. Harmon)

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:26 AM

From:

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU

To:

"President Barack Obama" <president@whitehouse.gov>, "U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder" <AskDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "David Farmer" <farmerd001@hawaii.rr.com>, "Steven Guttman" <sguttman@kdubm.com>, "Carol K. Muranaka" <ustp.region15@usdoj.gov>, "Judge David A. Ezra" <theresa_lam@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Judge Kevin S.C. Chang" <shari_afuso@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Judge Barry M. Kurren" <tammy_kimura@hid.uscourts.gov>, "Securities & Exchange Commission Enforcement Division" <enforcement@sec.gov>, "U.S. Treasury Dept. Office of Inspector General" <hotline@oig.treas.gov>, "Office of Inspector General US Dept of Justice" <oig.hotline@usdoj.gov>, "Executive Office for U.S. Trustees" <ustrustee.program@usdoj.gov>, "Judge Robert Faris" <hib@hib.uscourts.gov>, "SEC Office of The Inspector General" <oig@sec.gov>, "Hawaii State Bar Association" <info@hsba.org>, "Charles Goodwin" <HONOLULU@FBI.GOV>, "Hugh Jones" <hugh.r.jones@hawaii.gov>, "Insurance Division Fraud Branch" <insfraud@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Lawrence Reifurth" <dcca@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Linda Lingle" <governor.lingle@hawaii.gov>, "Jo Ann Uchida" <rico@dcca.hawaii.gov>, "Office of Inspector General Civil Rights Complaints" <inspector.general@usdoj.gov>, "Mark Bennett" <hawaiiag@hawaii.gov>, "American Arbitration Association" <webcase@adr.org>, "Judith Neustadter" <Judy@tiki.net>, "Benjamin J. Cayetano" <bjcayetano@aol.com>, "Lokelani Lindsey" <lindseyl001@hawaii.rr.com>, "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>, "Benjamin Kudo" <bkudo@imanakakudo.com>, "Bradley Tamm" <btamm@hawaii.rr.com>, "Carl Morton" <ethics@hawaiiethics.org>, "Charles Hurd" <mcp@mediatehawaii.org>, "David Shapiro" <volcanicash@gmail.com>, "Dee Jay Mailer" <ksinfo@ksbe.edu>, "J C Shannon" <Hapa1234@aol.com>, "James B Nicholson" <jamesbnicholson@aol.com>, "James B. Farris" <Farrisj@adr.org>, "James Cribley" <jcribley@caselombardi.com>, "James Wriston" <jwriston@awlaw.com>, "Jeffrey Watanabe" <jwatanabe@wik.com>, "Jim Dooley" <jdooley@honoluluadvertiser.com>, "Joe Moore" <news@khon2.com>, "John D. Finnegan" <info@chubb.com>, "John Goemans" <wip@kamuela.com>, "Judson Witham" <jurisnot2@yahoo.com>, "Ken Conklin" <ken_conklin@yahoo.com>, "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>, "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>, "William K Slate" <Websitemail@adr.org>, "Jim Terrack" <tnthawaii@aol.com>, "Rocco Sansone" <rocco.c.sansone@marsh.com>, "Ted Pettit" <tpettit@caselombardi.com>, "Laura Thielen" <dlnr@hawaii.gov>, "Vaughn & Lynda Robinson" <ronpaulslcutah@yahoo.com>, "Rebecca Christie" <rchristie4@bloomberg.net>, "Catbird" <the-catbird@hotmail.com>, "James Duca" <jduca@kdubm.com>, "Ian Lind" <diary@ilind.net>, "Roy F. Hughes" <hthughes@hawaii.rr.com>, "Malia Zimmerman" <Malia@hawaiireporter.com>, "Jack Cashill" <JCashill@aol.com>, "Marshall Chriswell" <mc@whistleblowers.org>, "Laser Haas" <laserhaas@msn.com>, "Lucy Komisar" <lkomisar@msn.com>, "Democrats.com" <activist@democrats.com>, "Debra Sweet" <debrasweet@worldcantwait.org>, "Jane Kirtley" <kirt001@umn.edu>, "John Jubinsky" <Jube@tghawaii.com>, "Yamil Berard" <yberard@star-telegram.com>, "Global Exchange" <communications@globalexchange.org>, "William K. Black" <blackw@umkc.edu>, "Carole Williams" <cjwms@up.net>, "Susan Tius" <STius@rmhawaii.com>, "Human Rights in China" <hrichina@hrichina.org>, "Michelle Malkin" <writemalkin@gmail.com>, "Heather Vsn Doren" <heather.vandoran@yahoo.com>, "Phil J. Berg" <philjberg@obamacrimes.com>, "Amnesty International U.S.A." <aimember@aiusa.org>, "Michael Moore" <bailout@michaelmoore.com>, "California Anti-SLAPP Project" <info@casp.net>, "Thomas Fitton" <info@judicialwatch.org>, "Ron Branson" <VictoryUSA@jail4judges.org>, "ACLU of Kentucky" <info@aclu-ky.org>, "ACLU Online" <ACLUOnline@aclu.org>

Faye W. Kurren

Board Member

Faye's profile was created using: 36 online sources

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FAYE KURREN
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Faye Watanabe Kurren is president of Tesoro Hawaii Corporation, an oil refining, marketing and distribution company of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, based in San Antonio, Texas.

Kurren is responsible for overseeing Tesoro Hawaii's 95,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Campbell Industrial Park, an expanding retail gasoline chain on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii, and the company's marketing, terminal and distribution operations.Tesoro Hawaii has about 750 employees.

The Honolulu native was formerly vice president-supply and international sales for BHP Hawaii, Inc. which was acquired by Tesoro in May 1998.In that position, she was responsible for the company's crude supply functions, operations in America Samoa, aviation and marine fuels sales, utility and military contracts.

Kurren joined BHP Hawaii in 1984 as counsel and served as vice president and general counsel from March 1995 to February 1996, when she was appointed to vice president-supply and international sales.Prior to joining BHP, she was an associate attorney with a private law firm in Honolulu.

She holds a law degree from the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, a master's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Stanford University.

She is a member of the Hawaii Bar Association and the Hawaii Business Roundtable. She also serves on the boards of Aloha United Way, Waikiki Aquarium, Girl Scout Council of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, and the Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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FAYE KURREN - NANCY JOHNSON - PETER SAVIO

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Dawson-Beadie.htm
Published on: 12/24/2008 Last Visited: 12/24/2008

Faye W. Kurren**, Board Development and Governance Chair
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Faye W. Kurren, Committee Chair
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NEW DISCOVERY (10-29-08): New facts providing more evidence of undisclosed conflicts of interests between Judge Barry Kurren and his wife, Faye Kurren, Paul Alston, Rick Daysog, Eric Grant, John Goemans and other entities involved in this case:

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Published on: 10/21/2007 Last Visited: 10/21/2007

Rejoining the board for a second term are: Jeff Harris, director and vice president, Torkildson Katz Fonseca Moore & Hetheringon; Randy Harris, former vice chair, Merrill Lynch International; Peter Ho, chief banking officer, Bank of Hawaii; Faye Kurren, president and CEO, Hawaii Dental Service; Greg Meier, president, Jamba Juice and P.F. Chang's Hawaii; Gary North, senior vice president, Matson Navigation Co.; Jean Rolles, vice president and assistant corporate secretary, Outrigger Hotels; Gerald Sumida, of counsel, Carlsmith Ball; Nonie Toledo, vice president and general manager, Sprint Hawai'i; and Jim Yates, president, The Gas Co.

www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2
Published on: 9/21/2007 Last Visited: 9/21/2007

Rejoining the board for a second term are: Jeff Harris, director and vice president, Torkildson Katz Fonseca Moore & Hetheringon; Randy Harris, former vice chair, Merrill Lynch International; Peter Ho, chief banking officer, Bank of Hawaii; Faye Kurren, president and CEO, Hawaii Dental Service; Greg Meier, president, Jamba Juice and PF Chang's Hawaii; Gary North, senior vice president, Matson Navigation Co.; Jean Rolles, vice president and assistant corporate secretary, Outrigger Hotels; Gerald Sumida, counsel, Carlsmith Ball; Nonie Toledo, vice president, general manager, Sprint Hawaii; and Jim Yates, president, The Gas Co.

www.waquarium.org/fowa-board-of-directors.asp
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Faye Kurren

Hawaii Dental Service

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Stevens-Ted.htm
Published on: 7/30/2008 Last Visited: 9/24/2008

NEW DISCOVERY (08-01-08): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between Senator Dan Inouye, Senator Ted Stevens, VECO Corporation, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Tesoro Petroleum, Faye Kurren, Judge Barry Kurren, etc.:
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NEW DISCOVERY (07-29-08): Undisclosed financial relationships between Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Dan Inouye, Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, Tesoro, Halliburton, VECO Pacific, others ...
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Senator Ted Stevens is expected to testify regarding his business, professional, political and personal relationships with Dan Inouye, Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes, ACDS, Inc., Daniel Akaka, Barack Obama, Linda Lingle, John Waihee, Jack Abramoff, Patricia Zell, Bill Frist, Faye Kurren (wife of Judge Barry Kurren), Tesoro Petroleum, Aloha Petroleum, Harken Energy, James Ahloy, The Nature Conservancy, Henry Paulson, Gale Norton, Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), James B. Nicholson, Lamar Hunt, William Simon, Carlyle Group, Titan Corporation, Roger Stillwell, Carla Hills, VECO Corp., and others to be named upon discovery.
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Faye Kurren - Nancy Johnson - Peter Savio

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NEW DISCOVERY (08-01-08): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between Senator Dan Inouye, Senator Ted Stevens, VECO Corporation, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Tesoro Petroleum, Faye Kurren, Judge Barry Kurren, etc.:
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Senator Dan Inouye is expected to testify regarding his business, professional and personal relationships with Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Joshua Gotbaum, Matsuo Takabuki; Jack Abramoff; Mitch McConnell, Claude Allen; Tom Cole; Kimo Kaloi; Leonard Millman; Invesco; Titan Corporation; Norm Brownstein; Jim Nicholson; Larry Mizel; Gale Norton; The Bureau of Indian Affairs; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Patricia Zell; 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; Hawai

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Three months later, First Hawaiian Bank added two women to its board: Faye Watanabe Kurren, president of Hawaii Dental Services, and Dee Jay Mailer, chief executive of Kamehameha Schools.

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June 10, 2009

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Trustee Farmer, Mr. Guttman, Ms. Neustadter, Judge Kevin Chang, Judge David Ezra, and All Concerned:

I am adding the subject Exhibit as it relates to this lawsuit which violates my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and a Fair Trial, and Federal and Hawaii Anti-SLAPP statutes.

You will find related information on-line at:

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Hawaii-Nature-Center.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Nature-Conservancy-Hawaii.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Apoliona-Haunani.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Kurren-Barry.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Kurren-Faye.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Mailer-Dee-Jay.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Paulson-Henry.htm

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; Trustees Mary Lou Woo, James Nicholson and David C. Farmer; American Arbitration Association arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, attorney Steven Guttman, and others, can still claim that they were non-conflicted, fair, impartial, and unbiased in this case.

Mr. Farmer and Mr. Guttman, in spite of all this factual evidence (not just "political opinions" or "conspiracy theories" as you have previously alleged), 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.

However, if you, and your insurance carriers, are still not willing to attempt to negotiate or mediate a settlement, then I ask that you perform your mandated review of 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.

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 "PSM" in these updated pages, and that you will NOT file any objections to my Motion.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

Additional References:

http://www.kycbs.net/

http://www.kycbs.net/Apartheid-Hawaii.htm

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

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Freedom-To-Sing.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Lost-Generations.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/RICO-in-Paradise.htm

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

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

http://voy.com/129276/

http://whistlersongs.blogspot.com

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-23-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interests between Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, AIG, El Paso Corporation, Tesoro, James Ahloy, Paradise Petroleum, Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, etc.:

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

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-13-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interests between Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren and numerous other entities involved in this lawsuit:

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Faye Watanabe Kurren is president of Tesoro Hawaii Corporation, an oil refining, marketing and distribution company of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, based in San Antonio, Texas.

Kurren is responsible for overseeing Tesoro Hawaii's 95,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Campbell Industrial Park, an expanding retail gasoline chain on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii, and the company's marketing, terminal and distribution operations.Tesoro Hawaii has about 750 employees.

The Honolulu native was formerly vice president-supply and international sales for BHP Hawaii, Inc. which was acquired by Tesoro in May 1998.In that position, she was responsible for the company's crude supply functions, operations in America Samoa, aviation and marine fuels sales, utility and military contracts.

Kurren joined BHP Hawaii in 1984 as counsel and served as vice president and general counsel from March 1995 to February 1996, when she was appointed to vice president-supply and international sales. Prior to joining BHP, she was an associate attorney with a private law firm in Honolulu.

She holds a law degree from the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, a master's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Stanford University.

She is a member of the Hawaii Bar Association and the Hawaii Business Roundtable. She also serves on the boards of Aloha United Way, Waikiki Aquarium, Girl Scout Council of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, and the Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Stevens-Ted.htm -

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NEW DISCOVERY (08-01-08): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between Senator Dan Inouye, Senator Ted Stevens, VECO Corporation, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Tesoro Petroleum, Faye Kurren, Judge Barry Kurren, etc.:
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Senator Dan Inouye is expected to testify regarding his business, professional and personal relationships with Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Joshua Gotbaum, Matsuo Takabuki; Jack Abramoff; Mitch McConnell, Claude Allen; Tom Cole; Kimo Kaloi; Leonard Millman; Invesco; Titan Corporation; Norm Brownstein; Jim Nicholson; Larry Mizel; Gale Norton; The Bureau of Indian Affairs; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Patricia Zell; 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; Hawaii...

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Faye Watanabe Kurren Tesoro Hawaii Corp.

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Three months later, First Hawaiian Bank added two women to its board: Faye Watanabe Kurren, president of Hawaii Dental Services, and Dee Jay Mailer, chief executive of Kamehameha Schools.

First Hawaiian Bank: Hawaii/Guam — May 18, 2005 -

Faye Watanabe Kurren, President of Hawaii Dental Services; and
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Kurren was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaii Dental Service, the largest provider of dental benefits in the state, in 2003.Previously, she served as President of Tesoro Hawaii Corp. from 1998 to 2003, overseeing its refining, distribution and retail operations for the mid-Pacific region.Kurren originally joined Pacific Resources, Inc. (PRI) as legal counsel in 1984.PRI later became BHP Hawaii and then Tesoro.

A graduate of Punahou School, Kurren holds a law degree from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa; a master's from the University of Chicago; and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University.She is the chair of the Hawai'i State Commission on the Status of Women and serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards of directors.

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-11-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interests between Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, Albert Chee, Linda Chu Takayama, Dan Inouye, Ted Stevens, Robert Wrede, etc.:

Monday, April 15, 2002

Oil companies note loophole
in gas price proposal

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Prabha Natarajan

Oil companies say a legislative proposal to regulate gas prices doesn't address the 50 percent of Hawaii's gas stations that are company operated, since it doesn't specify any price cap for them and doesn't require dealers to pass on savings to drivers.

These factors could lead to a situation where wholesale prices are held down, but not necessarily retail gas prices, said Albert Chee, spokesman for Chevron Hawaii.

"This proposal doesn't ensure, require or regulate that dealers pass on savings to consumers," Chee said. "The proposal relies on dealers to pass on savings out of the goodness of their hearts."

Lawmakers are attempting to institute prices controls after a lawsuit by the state against the oil companies was settled out of court. The state settled its $2 billion lawsuit, filed in 1998 against Chevron, Texaco, Shell, Unocal and Tosco, for $20 million. In 1999, the state settled with Tesoro Hawaii and BHP Hawaii for $15 million.

Lawmakers who support price regulation argue it's in the interest of Hawaii's consumers to bring prices more in line with those charged on the mainland.

"I'm not a fan of regulation," said Rep. Ed Case, D-Manoa. "But we have no open market here. The state's antitrust lawsuit was not able to demonstrate it. The next step is to either wait for a market remedy that may lead us in the wrong direction, or go for regulation. Even if oil companies file a lawsuit against us, we have enough evidence to prevail."

Chevron will consider legal action if price controls are enacted, but hopes it doesn't come to that, Chee said.

"Most lawmakers agree; we don't want to rush to a conclusion. We don't want more lawsuits and, therefore, want to proceed with caution," Chee said. "We settled the lawsuit at 1 percent of the claim. That is a clear indication of nothing wrong going on here."

"Instead of acting hastily, we suggest they pause, take a look at all the information and determine what needs to be done," Chee added. "If measures are not given thorough examination, there could be unintended consequences of it."

Market forces should rule, said Faye Kurren, president of Tesoro Hawaii.

"We are a firm believer that the consumer is ultimate," Kurren said. "They are the ones who should decide, not government."

A group of bipartisan House representatives supported a measure to establish a wholesale gasoline price based on the average price of crude oil in four markets. The proposed price formula was introduced in a House bill at the beginning of session by Rep. Paul Whalen, R-N. and S. Kona-Ka`u, but it was not heard by the Senate.

The House later inserted the proposal in a Senate bill to keep the measure alive for discussion during conference committee.

The proposed price-setting formula in the bill calls for an average price per barrel of West Texas Intermediate, Alaska North Slope, Saudi Arabian Light and North Sea Brent crude oil, multiplied by 0.035 to arrive at the cost per gallon.

Whalen said he arrived at that number after speaking with mainland oil industry officials who look at the cost to produce oil and that the number is used within the industry to calculate the actual cost to produce a gallon of gas. Using this formula would reduce oil prices by at least 40 to 50 cents a gallon, Whalen said.

If the formula were applied to current rates of oil as reported in The Wall Street Journal on April 8, the wholesale price of gas comes to 89 cents a gallon....

Hosie, a San Francisco attorney, represented the state in its antitrust lawsuit, arguing oil companies reaped profits of 50 to 60 cents a gallon here, compared to 10 cents on the West Coast and 2 to 3 cents for the rest of nation....

Between 1988 and 1998, Chevron's average after-tax return on investment in Hawaii from dealer stations was 20.8 percent, compared to 1.9 percent in Los Angeles and 9.8 percent in San Francisco, according to the deposition.

"Without a doubt, for the past decade oil companies have made huge profits at the expense of Hawaii's consumers," said Rep. Kenneth Hiraki, D-Downtown-Ala Moana, House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee chairman.

http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2002/04/15/daily2.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-10-09):

AUGUST 1984 - VOLUME 5 - NUMBER 8

N E W S M O N I T O R

Oil Money in Alaska Politics

by James Love

Over the past decade the state of Alaska has charted a difficult course of developing its resources while preserving it's environment. It has also struggled with the problem of planning for the future, as its richest asset, the Prudhoe Bay oil field, is rapidly being depleted.

Through the 1970s progressive citizens and political leaders were successful in increasing taxes on oil production, and modernizing the state's oil and gas leasing program. At present, the state collects roughly 30 percent of the gross revenue, about $3.5 billion annually, from its North Slope oil production. Part of this is invested in a trust fund for the future, part returned directly to citizens, and the remainder is used to finance a number of social programs, public works, and low interest loans.

The oil industry has profited handsomely from its Alaskan investments, but is constantly at odds with the state over tax and other development issues. In order to control the "political environment," the major oil companies finance elaborate lobbying and public relations programs, and are involved deeply in state and local political contests. Following are some examples of how oil money is being used to corrupt the political process.

In 1982 Democrat Bill Sheffield was elected governor, following a divisive race that turned on the regional issues of moving the state capital and rural development. Sheffield had spent a lot of money for the campaign, much of it from corporations, and about S566,000 in his own money. Following his inauguration, Sheffield sought to raise campaign funds so that he could pay himself back.

This led to trips to New York, Dallas, Houston and Denver, where he raised $155,000 from companies that handled the state's investments, like Prudential-Bache, Dean Witter, Reynolds, and Lehman Brothers; oil interests, including members of the Hunt family; and firms and executives of dozens of major oil companies, such as Arco, Shell, Phillips, Sohio Diamond Shamrock, Dresser Industries, Brown and Root, and Tesoro.

The governor traveled with his attorney general, and commissioners of Revenue and Natural Resources, on private aircraft supplied by three firms with oil interests- Enserch Inc., a resources conglomerate; ERA, an aviation company; and Parker Drilling. Organizers of the trip included Ely, Guess and Rudd, a politically well connected law firm, whose former partner, Norm Gorsuch, was a top campaign official for Sheffield, and now serves as his attorney general. The firm represents a long list of oil companies, including Exxon, Shell, Tesoro, VECO International, and Alyeska Pipeline - the consortium of Sohio, Exxon, Arco, Mobil, Union and other companies that operate the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).

The fundraising trip occured simultaneously with a decision by the governor to drop opposition to a proposed federal oil and gas lease sale in the environmentally sensitive Norton Sound area. As news of the trip leaked out, critics questioned the ethics of the fundraising. Sheffield was forced to appoint a special prosecutor, but he was subsequently cleared of breaking any state law.

Later in 1983, Gorsuch's former law firm, Ely, Guess and Rudd, began working with VECO International, an oil field service company, to establish a program for making unreported campaign contributions. Under advice from lawyer Robert Ely, the company solicited contributions of $100 each from its employees, which it withheld from paychecks and forwarded to state legislative candidates.

VECO hired a former state senator, Ed Dankworth, to replace Gorsuch as its lobbyist, and to help distribute the funds. Dankworth had once served as head of the Alaska State Troopers and had served as chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, which oversees oil industry taxation, until he was forced to give up his seat in 1982 amid criminal conflict of interest charges.

Dankworth's problems stemmed from his attempt to use his influence to sell the state an oilfield service camp that was once used to build the TAPS pipeline. According to testimony before a grand jury, Dankworth was approached by another former Trooper Chief, Pat Wellington, who was working as a security agent for Alyeska. Wellington told Dankworth that Alyeska had a surplus pipeline construction camp that it wanted to sell, and that might be useable as a state prison facility. Dankworth said he was personally interested in buying the camp. Wellington told the grand jury, "I said . . . 'Alyeska will be willing to sell the camp to anybody, I'm sure. But,' I said, `I extended the invitation and the offer to you Ed, as a member of the Finance Committee and as a state official interested in law enforcement."'

Dankworth found a partner and signed an agreement to buy the camp for $900,000 from Alyeska, and began trying to sell the camp to the state for $3 to $4 million. Dankworth subsequently used his position on the Finance Committee to insert a special appropriation, titled "surplus property," into the state budget to purchase the camp. In November 1982 he was indicted on two counts of conflict of interest violations, but escaped prosecution when a state judge ruled that he was protected by legislative immunity.

Having left the legislature, Dankworth started a business as a lobbyist, picking up VECO and other clients. Despite his troubles over the conflict of interest charges, he remained an influential figure in the state legislature.

In the fall of 1983 Dankworth began meeting with legislators to discuss changing the leadership of the state senate, promising $35,000 in campaign contributions for senators who followed his plan.

The money, or a large part of it, was to be raised through the VECO contributions. Under Alaskan law, corporations are allowed to contribute to legislative candidates, but the maximum allowable contribution is $1,000. Moreover, disclosure is required for all contributions over $ 100. VECO sought to get around these restrictions by asking its oil field workers to make $100 contributions, which were then deducted from paychecks.

Once employees agreed to the payroll deduction, they were sent a memo from the chairman of VECO and told the names of the candidates to whom their contribution would be sent, unless they voiced objections. Through this device VECO channeled thousands of unreported campaign contributions to candidates for the state senate.

The scheme began to unravel when news reports appeared about the VECO contributions and Dankworth's plan to reorganize the senate leadership. The Alaska Public Offices Commission, which is charged with overseeing Alaska's campaign disclosure laws, launched an investigation. In August the Commission staff reported that it believed VECO had violated three campaign disclosure laws, including making contributions in excess of $1,000; making contributions under another person's name; and failing to file reports of its contributions with the Commission.

These examples are but a small part of the larger picture of the oil industry's power in Alaska. The industry is actively promoting its candidates for city and borough government in the Eskimo community of Barrow and the surrounding villages, which have the power to levy property taxes and impose environmental restrictions on nearby oil development. Local charities-including, if not especially, public broadcasting-constantly have their hands out to the oil companies. And the government sector is now seeing a steady stream of public officials taking jobs with the industry, after dealing with the industry as a guardian of the public interest.

Sheffield and pro-industry legislators are unlikely to reduce current taxes on the oil industry, primarily because the money is already committed to projects with growing constituencies. But there is a disturbing trend of giveaways to the industry on issues that will have the greatest impact in the future, such as changes in lease terms on properties where production has yet to begin, speeding up the schedule of lease sales, or relaxing environmental controls.

James Love is a graduate student at Princeton University, and former director of Alaska PIRG. Maureen Kennedy assisted with this article.

http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1984/08/love.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (02-07-09): More undisclosed conflicts of interest between Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, Tesoro Hawaii, Sukamto Sia, Diane Plotts, Bank of Honolulu, Bob Awana, Linda Lingle, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Dan Inouye, Ted Stevens, Daniel Akaka, Ted Liu, Robbie Alm, Ralph Parsons Company, Bechtel Corporation, Kamehameha Schools, Punahou School, The Nature Conservancy, etc.:

http://www.kycbs.net/Federal-Contractors-Hawaii-2000.mht

http://heco.com/vcmcontent/FileScan/PDFConvert/FuelOil.pdf

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/indonesia/

http://www.kycbs.net/BH-Settlement-Chronology.htm

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

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Catbird3.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Nature-Conservancy-Hawaii.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/Ralph-Parsons.htm

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

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Alm-Robbie.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Clinton-Bill.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Clinton-Hillary.htm

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

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Kurren-Barry.htm

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Liu-Ted.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Obama-Barack.htm

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

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

http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Stevens-Ted.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (11-30-08):

THE BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY

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Forbes Business Profile

Robert W. Goldman

Director, Tesoro Corporation

San Antonio , TX

Director, El Paso Corporation

Houston , TX

Director , McDermott International, Inc.

Houston , TX

Director , Parker Drilling Company

Houston , TX

66 Years Old

Mr. Goldman has been a financial consultant since 2002. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conoco Inc. Prior to joining Conoco in 1988 as its Vice President and Controller, he had worked for E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. in a variety of financial and operating roles.

Mr. Goldman serves on the boards of El Paso Corporation, a publicly-held provider of natural gas and related energy products that owns North America's largest natural gas pipeline system and is one of North America's largest independent natural gas producers, Parker Drilling Company, a publicly-held global energy company specializing in offshore drilling and workover services, and McDermott International, Inc., a publicly-held worldwide energy and services company.

Mr. Goldman is a member of the Outside Advisory Council of Global Infrastructure Partners. He is a former chairman of the Accounting Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. He served as Vice President, Finance of the London-based World Petroleum Council from 2002 to July 2008.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/robert-w-goldman/28619

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NEW DISCOVERY (09/10/08):

August 17, 2007

Isle investors buying Mid Pac fuel chain

The purchase includes 36 of 51 Union 76 gas stations

By Jennifer Sudick, Star-Bulletin

A group of local investors led by First Hawaiian Bank Chairman Walter Dods Jr. is purchasing Mid Pac Petroleum LLC from a Singaporean investment firm.

Hawaii-based Koko'oha Investments Inc., formed this month by Dods and three other investors, will buy the petroleum distributor and marketer for $44 million from k1 Ventures Ltd. Mid Pac owns 36 of the 51 Union 76-branded gas stations in Hawaii. It is the second time control of the brand and the stations has changed hands in three years.

"It's very rare in Hawaii that a top-50 type company becomes available," Dods said in an interview. "I loved the fact that we were able to bring the company back home."

There will be "no disruption" to the company's 100 employees, he said.

The cash purchase, expected to close Sept. 1, includes Union 76 stations on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island, with fuel-supply contracts for Hawaii's independently operated Union 76 stations. The deal also includes Mid Pac's trucking assets, marketing programs, and fueling terminals at Hilo and Kawaihae on the Big Island.

The former longtime First Hawaiian chief executive, who will become chairman of the company, is being joined by David Hulihee, president of Hawaii-based construction company Royal Contracting Company Ltd.; Bill Mills, chairman of Hawaii-based real estate investment company the Mills Group; and Jim Yates, who will serve as president and CEO of Mid Pac.

Yates is stepping down at the end of this month as president and CEO of local natural-gas supplier the Gas Co., where he worked for 12 years.

"This company has been really well run in the last three years since it was started up, so to some extent it will be business as usual," Yates said in an interview. "As compared to a foreign owner, we are just going to be able to offer more to the local community. I'm excited about it."

The investors will have an equal share in the company, Dods said, with no immediate plans for other purchases.

"We take a long-term approach," he said. "We want to build the company. We would love to use the company to buy additional energy-related vehicles over time."

K1 Ventures formed Mid Pac in 2004 -- its second foray into the Hawaii energy market. It acquired the Gas Co., now owned by New York-based Macquarie Infrastructure Co., in 2002.

Mid Pac was ranked as the state's 52nd-largest company with annual sales of $170 million last year in Hawaii Business Magazine's August issue.

Dods, who retired as CEO of First Hawaiian Bank and parent BancWest Corp. in 2004 after 16 years at the helm, teamed with Hulihee and Mills as part of a group of a dozen investors for a $30 million stake in Hawaiian Telcom Communications Inc. A Washington, D.C.-based private-equity firm, the Carlyle Group, acquired Verizon Communications Inc.'s Hawaii assets for $1.6 billion in May 2005, changing the company name from Verizon Hawaii to Hawaiian Telcom.

The three investors and longtime friends also have a majority ownership of Hawaii-based construction material supplier and contractor Grace Pacific Corp., Dods said.

http://starbulletin.com/2007/08/17/news/story09.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (09/10/08):

May 6, 2006

Tesoro agrees to buy 4 gas stations on Garden Island

By Dave Segal, Star-Bulletin

Kauai Petroleum Co. has agreed to sell its four company-owned gas stations, a storage facility at Nawiliwili Harbor and trucking operations to San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp., which operates Hawaii's largest refinery.

Kauai Petroleum, founded in 1948, is a supplier for Union 76. With the deal, Tesoro would be making its first entry into the Kauai market. The company has 33 branded stations on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. Thirty of those are company operated and three are run by independent dealers.

"I'm glad we're being acquired by a major oil company," Kauai Petroleum General Manager Baltazar Manibog said yesterday. "Part of the reason why the owners wanted to sell is the margin on fuel as a (supplier) is diminishing. To keep up with the changes in the petroleum industry, you have to have more resources and deeper pockets, and we're just a small company."

Kauai Petroleum has nine full-time employees and nine part-timers, according to Manibog.

"They'll offer employment to our present employees they want to retain," he said.

Tesoro, which operates six refineries in the western United States and has more than 475 branded gas stations, said it was interested in Kauai Petroleum because it allows Tesoro to expand and capitalize on its operations in the state.

"Since ... Kauai is the fourth-largest fuel market in Hawaii and has the fastest-growing jet-fuel demand, we believe this acquisition will provide another strategic outlet for our gasoline and jet-fuel production from our (94,000-barrel-a-day) Kapolei facility," said Bruce Smith, chairman, president and chief executive of Tesoro.

Tesoro said it expects to complete its due-diligence review of Kauai Petroleum's assets within 30 days. The acquisition needs to be approved by Kauai Petroleum's three dozen shareholders before it can close.

Manibog said he was confident a majority of shareholders would approve the deal, and Tesoro said it expected the sale to close by the end of next month.

Kauai Petroleum has been hurt by the state gas-cap law that went into effect Sept. 1. The law linked the price of fuel in Hawaii to prices on the mainland and limited the margin that goes from the refinery to the service station.

However, state lawmakers voted this week to indefinitely suspend the gas cap law and allow gasoline companies to charge whatever the market will bear. Gov. Linda Lingle yesterday signed the legislation to suspend the cap, effective immediately.

"With the gas cap and all the changes in the petroleum industry, and the increased government regulations, the owners of the company decided that we should just exit the petroleum industry," Manibog said. "When the gas cap went into effect, I did lose some accounts. And when you lose accounts, your volume decreases."

http://starbulletin.com/2006/05/06/business/story02.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (08-15-08): Undisclosed conflicts of interests between Senator Dan Inouye, Senator Ted Stevens, VECO Corporation, George W. Bush, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Shell Oil, Barack Obama, Mark Bennett, Linda Lingle, Tesoro Petroleum, Faye Kurren, Judge Barry Kurren, Enron, etc.:

August 3, 2007

Convicted Stevens donors fed
Inouye's campaign, too

The Hawaii senator shares donors with
an embattled Alaska lawmaker

By Richard Borreca

rborreca@starbulletin.com

Hawaii's senior Sen. Daniel Inouye has received $11,000 in contributions from officers and employees of VECO Corp., the Alaska oil utility firm involved in the federal investigation of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

Inouye and Stevens are close friends who call each other "brothers." They travel together and share responsibilities in Senate committees, although Inouye is a Democrat and Stevens is the Senate's longest-serving Republican.

Federal Election Commission records show that in 2003, Bill Allen, the former VECO chief executive who pleaded guilty to paying more than $400,000 in bribes to members of the Alaska Legislature, gave Inouye $2,000.

Others connected to VECO gave Inouye $9,000.

Two federal grand juries, one in Alaska and one in Washington, D.C., are investigating Stevens and VECO. Earlier this week the FBI and the IRS raided Stevens' Alaska home.

Asked about the contributions, Inouye said through a spokesman, "It is no secret that Sen. Ted Stevens and I are close friends and that we have helped each other's campaigns."

But Inouye noted he did not "know personally the individuals from Alaska who made the contributions, and I did not solicit contributions from them. Moreover, nothing about the contributions at the time they were made appeared irregular."

The Washington Post reported this week that Inouye said Tuesday he had spoken to Stevens about the federal investigation and felt that Stevens did nothing wrong.

"He's convinced, I think, that he didn't do anything wrong. He's my friend, and he'll continue to be my friend," Inouye told the Post.

Inouye added that the VECO contributors to his campaign during the 2003-04 cycle accounted for only a tiny fraction of the $3 million that was raised, and they also comprised less than 1 percent of the nearly 2,000 contributors to his campaign.

Other Alaska contributors to Inouye with ties to Stevens include Ed Rasmuson, who gave Inouye $1,000, and Carl and Joy Marrs, who also gave Inouye $1,000 each in 2003. Marrs and Rasmuson were partners with Stevens in Alaska's Great Eagle LLC, which was formed to buy a race horse.

Earlier this year the Alaska Federation of Natives honored Inouye and Stevens with a special ceremony.

The program noted the pair have been politically linked for decades.

"Although these two great men sit on opposite sides of the aisle, they share an unbreakable bond of friendship and camaraderie. Sen. Inouye and Sen. Stevens each served in World War II; each studied law and each fought for statehood in their home territories of Hawaii and Alaska," a program at the ceremony read.

Today, Stevens, 83, is the subject of federal investigations into his ties with managers of VECO, Alaska's largest oil services company.

The Alaska Daily News reported that one current and two former Alaska legislators pleaded not guilty in May to extortion and taking bribes to support legislation benefiting the company. Days later, Bill Allen, VECO founder and CEO, and a VECO vice president both pleaded guilty to bribing state lawmakers in exchange for votes on oil legislation favorable to the industry.

Also involved in the investigation is Stevens' son, Ben, a former president of the Alaska Senate.

Stevens is a political icon in Alaska. The airport in Anchorage bears his name. Stevens, like Inouye, served on the defense appropriations subcommittee.

Observers say the two collaborate closely and are responsible for much of the national annual defense spending bill.

The pair also travels together. In 2002, Stevens and Inouye went to Indonesia to discuss military cooperation with the Indonesian army.

DONORS FROM ALASKA

A look at U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye's 2003-04 contributions from Alaska donors involved in the Sen. Ted Stevens federal investigation:

Bill Allen, VECO, CEO, $2,000. Pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges.

Richard Smith, VECO, vice president and lobbyist, $2000. Pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges.

Mark Allen, VECO, director, $2,000

Jeanette Allen, wife of Mark Allen, $2,000

James Stack, VECO, position not disclosed, $1,000

Peter Leathard, VECO, president and COO, $2,000, named in FBI search warrant of Alaska legislative offices

http://starbulletin.com/2007/08/03/news/story02.html

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December 6, 1996

ENRON and Shell Win Bid in
Capitalization of YPFB's
Transportation Segment

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA – Enron Development Corp. and Shell International Gas Ltd. announced today that the government of Bolivia has named the companies the successful capitalizing company for the transportation segment of the state oil and gas company, Yacimientos Petroliferos...

Business Wire

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March 30, 1998

The following is an excerpt from a 10-K SEC Filing, filed by TESORO PETROLEUM CORP /NEW/ on 3/30/1998:

ACCESS TO NEW MARKETS

A lack of market access has constrained natural gas production in Bolivia. With little internal gas demand, all of the Company's Bolivian natural gas production is sold under contract to the Bolivian government for export to Argentina.

Major developments in South America indicate that new markets will open for the Company's production. Construction of a new 1,900-mile pipeline that will link Bolivia's extensive gas reserves with markets in Brazil commenced in 1997 and is expected to be operational in early 1999.

The owners of the new pipeline include Petrobras (the Brazilian state oil company), other Brazilian investors, Enron Corp., Shell International Gas Ltd., British Gas PLC, El Paso Energy Corp., BHP, and Bolivian pension funds. When completed, the new pipeline will have a capacity of approximately 1 billion cubic feet ("Bcf") per day.

For more, see...

Googling the Ghost of Ken Lay

Aloha, Harken Energy

The Story of Enron

Vultures Up to their Necks in Tesoro Petroleum

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July 30, 2008

Alaska Sen. Stevens indicted;
'I am innocent'

By LISA DEMER, RICHARD MAUER and ERIKA BOLSTAD
Anchorage Daily News

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted long-term U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens Tuesday on seven counts of filing false financial disclosures, each a felony charge that carries a penalty of five years in prison and an unspecified fine.

With the indictment, Stevens, an icon in Alaska politics, becomes by far the most powerful politician charged in the broad, four-year federal investigation into public corruption in the state. To date, three state legislators, a high-level official in Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration, two businessmen and a lobbyist have been convicted, while two legislators are awaiting trial.

Stevens said he will fight to save himself and his long career.

"I am innocent of these charges and intend to prove that," he said in a prepared statement. "I have proudly served this nation and Alaska for over 50 years."

At a news conference in Washington to announce the indictment, Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division, said Stevens would be allowed to turn himself in. Stevens' attorney, Brendan Sullivan of Washington, was notified of the indictment Tuesday morning shortly before it became public, Friedrich said.

'THINGS OF VALUE'

The seven-count indictment charges Stevens with making false statements by failing to disclose "things of value" he received from Veco Corp., the now-defunct Alaska-based oil services and construction company, and from its chairman, Bill Allen, in a scheme that stretched over eight years.

At the same time, according to the indictment, Allen and other Veco employees asked Stevens to intervene on their behalf with the government, and Stevens sometimes obliged.

Stevens received substantial benefits from his relationship with Veco that he never disclosed, the indictment charged: improvements to his home in Girdwood; an automobile exchange in which he received a new Land Rover worth far more than his 35-year-old Mustang; and household appliances.

The federal Ethics in Government Act requires all senators to file financial disclosure statements detailing their transactions during the previous calendar year, including the disclosure of gifts above a specified value and all liabilities greater than $10,000.

At the news conference, Friedrich said the case involved false disclosures, not bribery, and no specific actions by Stevens in return for gifts were charged, even though the indictment mentioned some Veco requests and the favorable responses by Stevens and his staff.

Some of the solicitations were made directly to Stevens and included requests for help by Veco on its international projects in Pakistan and Russia; requests for federal grants and contracts, including National Science Foundation contracts worth nearly $200 million; and assistance with efforts to construct a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope.

The indictment comes just as Stevens is in the political fight of his life to win a seventh term. The fallout was immediate: Under Republican rules governing indicted senators, he had to step aside from two key committee positions he earned through longevity -- his co-chairmanship of the Commerce Committee, which oversees fishing and telecommunications, and his ranking position on the defense appropriations subcommittee, from which he has sent millions in earmarks to Alaska.

Even with his famed clout in Washington at least temporarily diminished, Stevens vowed to continue his campaign. His presumptive Democratic opponent, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, wouldn't answer questions about Stevens' indictment.

YEAR AFTER GIRDWOOD RAID

Friedrich said the Justice Department followed its own rules in seeking an indictment when the evidence was complete and sufficient to bring charges. The political calendar wasn't considered, he said.

Allen, Veco's former chief executive, and Rick Smith, the company's former vice president of community affairs and government relations, pleaded guilty May 7, 2007, to providing more than $400,000 in corrupt payments to public officials from Alaska. Allen and Smith are cooperating and have been key witnesses in two trials so far.

Back then, there were no direct references in the Allen and Smith charges to gifts they provided to Stevens, though they admitted making corrupt payments of $243,250 over five years to Stevens' son Ben, once president of the Alaska Senate. Ben Stevens has not been charged and has denied wrongdoing.

The charges against Ted Stevens come almost exactly a year after an FBI and IRS raid on Stevens' home in Girdwood, the first time those agencies had ever raided the home of a sitting U.S. senator. At the time the agents documented the renovations made in 2000 that were overseen by Allen and managed by his employees and contractors. The renovations doubled the size of the home.

Stevens has refused to discuss the investigation, except to say he paid every bill he received connected to the renovation. He has refused to elaborate about whether that answer implied he knew of work on the house for which he wasn't billed.

The indictment said Stevens made "multiple false representations" to reporters, his friends and his staff about what he received from Veco and Allen. While it's no crime for an official to lie to the media, prosecutors charged that those statements were part of his long-term effort to conceal Veco's gifts and benefits.

MORE THAN $200,000 ON RENOVATIONS

From the summer of 2000 to about December 2001, Veco spent more than $200,000 on the Girdwood renovations, including materials, labor and architectural design, the indictment says. Much of that effort has already been the subject of extensive media coverage based on interviews with contractors, ex-Veco employees and Girdwood residents who witnessed the work.

For instance, Veco and Stevens hired a construction firm, identified only as "Construction Firm A" in the indictment, for the renovation project. The company matches the description of Christensen Builders of Anchorage, whose president, Augie Paone, told the Daily News in May 2007 that he was hired by Veco but sent invoices to Stevens and that Stevens paid by personal check from a new account.

The charges say Stevens never paid Veco anything for the materials or labor provided by Veco, its employees and contractors but clearly knew that Veco did a lot of the work.

Paone said he fully cooperated with the government. The indictment echoes his assertions in the interview, adding that Construction Firm A focused on carpentry and finish work, and Veco employees did much more.

PRAISE FOR VECO WORKERS

In an e-mail to Allen Sept. 24, 2000, Stevens was full of praise for Veco and its employees, according to the indictment. "We've never worked with a man so easy to get along with as (unnamed Veco employee). Plus, everyone who's seen the place wants to know who has done the things he's done. ... You and (Person A) have been the spark plugs, and we are really pleased with all you have done. hope to see you and the chalet soon. best teds." The indictment goes much further than what was previously known and reveals that maintenance on the house extended into 2006. When something went awry, the charges say, Stevens asked Veco for help much as someone else might call a plumber.

By 2006, the concealed "things of value" topped $250,000.

The indictment has no reference to whether the government intercepted calls made to Stevens from any of Allen's or Smith's phones that were wiretapped under court order starting in 2005. Once Allen agreed to plead guilty, on Aug. 30, 2006, he placed several calls to public officials, including Stevens, in a sting effort. The content of those calls has not been disclosed.

The 1999 vehicle exchange cited in the indictment concerned a new car for Stevens' "dependent child," not naming the person. At the time, his only dependent child was daughter Lily.

Allen transferred a new 1999 Land Rover Discovery, which he had bought for $44,000, to Stevens. In exchange, Stevens gave Allen, a car collector with a love of Fords, a 1964 Mustang and $5,000. But the Mustang was worth less than $20,000, according to the indictment.

Lily Stevens, now 27, is the sole child of Stevens' marriage to his second wife, Catherine. Lily, a law clerk in Washington, is engaged to be married in late August. A call to her Washington office was not returned.

Stevens' first wife, Ann, was killed in the crash of a private jet in Anchorage in 1978 that injured Stevens. Ted and Ann Stevens had five children together, including Ben.

ALASKAN OF THE CENTURY

Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. From 2003 to 2007, he was Senate president pro tem and third in line to the presidency. With political power that increased with his longevity, Stevens came to represent Alaska's clout in Congress. In January 2000, Stevens was named "Alaskan of the Century," and the Anchorage airport was renamed in his honor that July.

That was also the year of the bulk of the Girdwood home renovations.

Alaska's other senator, Lisa Murkowski, expressed shock at the indictment in a prepared statement today.

"I know Ted Stevens to be an honorable, hard-working Alaskan who has served our state well for as long as we have been a state," she said. "As to the charges, we are at the beginning of the criminal process and there is a judicial procedure in place that will be followed."

Murkowski, a Republican, probably owes her election in 2004 to Stevens. She was trailing former Gov. Tony Knowles in the polls until the final weeks, when Stevens began blitzing the state with commercials saying he needed her beside him in Washington.

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, Stevens' best friend in the Senate, said in a brief statement: "In our legal system, a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. ... As far as I am concerned, Ted Stevens remains my friend. I believe in him."

Stevens and Inouye are both World War II veterans and call each other "brother." When Stevens became chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee in 2005, he named Inouye vice chairman rather than the usual term "ranking member" afforded the senior member of the opposite party.

Inouye returned the favor last year when Democrats took over the Senate and he became chairman.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/478349.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (08-06-08): Undisclosed conflicts of interest with Gregory Dunn; Hawaii Nature Center; Hawaii Dental Service; Faye Kurren; Judge Barry Kurren; Dee Jay Mailer; Kamehameha Schools; Don Carroll, etc:

From the Hawaii Nature Center website:

Gregory D. Dunn was appointed executive director of the Hawaii Nature Center March 1, 2002. Dunn joins the Hawaii Nature Center after more than three years as executive director of the Atherton Branch of the YMCA of Honolulu. He brings to the Nature Center a strong track record in facility management, fund development, recruitment and project management. Previously he was operations manager for two new retail projects in Hawaii, the Barnes and Noble Superstores of Honolulu and NikeTown Honolulu. He is a member of the boards of Hawaii Dental Service, Inc., the Waikiki Community Center and Youth for Environmental Service. He is a trustee and chairman of the HDS Foundation. "Dunn's experience in the local community and his activities on behalf of youth in a non-profit arena made him a logical choice to lead the Hawaii Nature Center as it embarks on a plan to expand service," said Nature Center Board President, Don Carroll, also chairman of the board of Time-Warner Cable of Hawaii.

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NEW DISCOVERY (07-29-08): Undisclosed financial relationships between Senator Ted Stevens, Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, Tesoro, Halliburton, VECO Pacific, others...

March 22, 2000

KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT'S ROSE™ AND FCC TECHNOLOGIES SELECTED BY TESORO NORTHWEST FOR ANACORTES REFINERY UPGRADE

DALLAS, Texas - Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), was recently selected to provide its state-of-the-art Residuum Oil Supercritical Extraction (ROSE™) and Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Technologies for a major upgrade at Tesoro Northwest Company's refinery in Anacortes, Washington. Tesoro Northwest Company is a subsidiary of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation. Part of an $80 million project, the upgrade will improve the ability of the refinery to run heavier, less expensive crudes while maintaining an almost equal production profile.

KBR's involvement in the multi-million dollar project includes a variety of undertakings. The company will add a grassroots 21,000 barrel-per-day ROSE unit to the refinery while incorporating KBR's advanced FCC technologies to the existing 42,000 barrel-per-day FCC. In addition to providing ROSE and FCC technology licenses, KBR also will perform basic engineering services, will supply associated proprietary equipment and will be responsible for a portion of the detailed engineering, procurement and construction activities in conjunction with engineering contractors Anvil Corporation and VECO Pacific, Inc.

"This win has provided Kellogg Brown & Root with several great opportunities - the ability to work with a growing refining and marketing company like Tesoro, to link our world class FCC and ROSE technologies, and to expand our current presence in the northwest," said Kellogg Brown & Root President Jack Stanley....

Headquartered in Houston, Kellogg Brown & Root is an international, technology-based engineering and construction company providing a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon, chemical, energy, forest products, manufacturing, and mining and minerals industries.

Founded in 1919, Halliburton Company is the world's leading diversified energy services, engineering, energy equipment, construction and maintenance company. In 1999, Halliburton's consolidated revenues were $14.9 billion and it conducted business with a workforce of approximately 100,000 in more than 120 countries. The company's World Wide Web site can be accessed at http://www.halliburton.com .

Tesoro Petroleum Corporation is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products and provider of marine logistics services. Tesoro operates three refineries in the western U.S. with a combined capacity of 275,000 barrels per day. Tesoro's branded retail network is currently comprised of approximately 240 stations, of which 61 are company owned and operated.

Contact
Wendy Hagan
Halliburton Company
Public Relations
wendy.hagan@halliburton.com

http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2000/kbrnws_032200.jsp

See also:

www.kycbs.net/Tesoro.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Stevens-Ted.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Kurren-Barry.htm

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

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NEW DISCOVERY (06-20-08):

June 20, 2008

New offshore drilling not a quick fix, analysts say

Start-up delays, global market pressures cited

By Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe Staff

President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain have called this week for lifting a federal moratorium on offshore oil exploration, arguing that taking action to increase domestic oil supplies will help drive down prices.

But analysts say that renewed offshore drilling would have little impact on gas prices anytime soon.

It would take at least a decade for oil companies to obtain permits, procure equipment, and do the exploration necessary to get the oil out of the ground, most industry analysts say. And even then, they add, the amount of new oil produced would probably be too small to significantly affect world oil prices.

Some analysts point out that the wells the United States now depends on are being depleted, and that new exploration could at least help offset that decline in supply from existing wells.

Expanded offshore exploration also carries with it some environmental risks, from oil spills to destruction of habitat to vibrations that damage sea life, which environmentalists say could have catastrophic consequences that far outweigh any potential benefit from further offshore drilling. But other analysts say that improved technology means the risks are much smaller than a generation ago. In this view, a sensible compromise approach would be to make decisions on potential drilling sites on a case-by-case basis.

Americans' anger over $4-a-gallon gasoline apparently has prompted greater public support for renewed offshore drilling. A Gallup poll last month found that 57 percent of respondents favored such drilling while 41 percent were opposed. Democratic candidate Barack Obama supports the moratorium.

The debate over expanded oil exploration has always been polarizing - recall the ferocity of the fight over whether to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but some analysts are calling for a more moderate tone.

“Clearly, drilling is not the solution to our oil dependence, but any serious energy proposal has to be comprehensive and include more oil supply and production off the outer continental shelf," said Robbie Diamond, president and founder of Securing America's Future Energy, a nonpartisan group committed to reducing the nation's dependence on oil.

In the short term, oil prices could go down slightly if Congress lifts its moratorium on new offshore drilling, which has been in place since 1981, because the market would factor in the prospect of additional oil supplies later on. But the actual oil would not be produced for 10 to 12 years.

And in any case, increased American production from offshore drilling would not necessarily mean lower prices for American consumers because oil is a global commodity whose price is set by global supply and demand.

"Suppose the US produced all its oil domestically," said Robert Kaufmann, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University. "Do you think oil companies would sell oil to US consumers for one cent less than they could get from French consumers? No. Where oil comes from has no effect on price."

And there is not likely to be enough new American oil to make much of a difference, Kaufmann and others said. About 86 billion barrels of additional oil may lie offshore, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration. Of that amount, about 18 billion barrels are subject to the moratorium. Much of the rest lies in areas that are too expensive to exploit or that oil companies have not yet tapped for technical reasons, fueling the industry's desire for fresh territory.

"We're picking over bones," said Cathy Landry, a spokeswoman for the American Petroleum Institute. "If we had new acres, we could hypothetically make a big find. We need oil and natural gas in the future."

But in the best-case scenario, Kaufmann said, the United States could only produce an additional two to four million barrels of offshore oil a day - not enough to shift the global supply-demand balance in a world market that now consumes about 86 million barrels a day and is growing fast. About a quarter of that consumption now occurs in the United States.

Kaufmann said that by the time any additional offshore oil got to market, much of it would merely offset losses from the depletion of current oil fields. Meanwhile, oil producing nations can easily keep supply constant by limiting capacity if they know the United States is adding more.

"There's nothing on the supply side that we can really do to disrupt OPEC's ability to influence prices," he said.

Environmentalists argue that the pollution caused by drilling could compromise fragile ecosystems for very little economic benefit when the United States should be focusing on conservation - the cheapest barrel of oil, they like to say, is the one we don't have to buy - and developing better renewable energy sources.

They point to a number of environmental risks. Drilling fluids contain toxic chemicals. If oil is found, one of the waste products is briny water that also contains toxic chemicals. The noise from drilling could harm some sea animals, such as whales. And the oil would also have to be transported by pipeline or ship, creating its own environmental impacts. Then there is a risk of spills.

"Today we think offshore oil drilling could be the final straw in the unfolding collapse of New England fisheries," said Priscilla Brooks, director of the Ocean Conservation Project at the Conservation Law Foundation, which successfully fought a proposed drilling lease on Georges Bank in the late 1970s.

But Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and a scientist who has studied the effects of offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, said that she believes expanding offshore oil exploration would not pose terrible risks to the environment because the effects are relatively contained, and the industry is well-regulated.

Henry Lee, who teaches energy policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said he believes there is a middle ground. There is no panacea, he said, for solving America's energy problems, so it may be best to lift the prohibitions on offshore drilling, and carefully consider the oil potential and possible environmental costs in different locations on a case-by-case basis.

"Each side, I think, is not being reasonable about this," he said. "I want to do the analysis and figure out what the implications are."

New offshore drilling not a quick fix, analysts say

For more, see: www.kycbs.net/Oil-Stupid.htm

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March 31, 2002

Simon has millions in oil stocks as California fights offshore drilling

DON THOMPSON, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO ---- As California battles the Bush administration over plans to drill for oil off the state's coast, Republican candidate for governor Bill Simon has millions of dollars invested in companies that would benefit if drilling is allowed.

If drilling starts, the companies in which Simon owns stock could gain drilling contracts, ship the oil pumped from beneath the sea and then sell that oil. As governor, Simon could end California's legal efforts to stop drilling.

A Los Angeles millionaire and former oil company vice president, Simon has said repeatedly he opposes additional drilling off California's coast, but has defended his vast investments.

"Just because you're against offshore drilling in certain areas doesn't mean you're against offshore drilling worldwide," Simon said in January.

But his extensive ties to offshore oil interests don't comfort drilling opponents.

"To have someone heavily invested in the oil industry overseeing California's coast is a little scary," said Carl Zichella, the Sierra Club's regional director. "If he waffles (on offshore drilling) at all, it will be to his political detriment."

The Bush administration wants a federal appeals court to allow drilling off San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Democratic Gov. Gray Davis used the courts to block attempts to build the first new oil platforms off California's coast since 1994, rejected settlement offers and has sworn he will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Simon has at least tens of thousands of dollars invested in companies with direct interests in the dispute, financial disclosure documents show, and owns millions more in companies that drill, sell and ship oil by tankers and pipelines.

For example, he owns up to $100,000 of SeaRiver Maritime Financial Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp., which is one of the companies holding the 36 leases at issue in the federal drilling case. It also owns currently producing leases. A SeaRiver subsidiary, formerly Exxon Shipping Co., operated the Exxon Valdez that ran aground and spilled oil off Alaska in 1989.

Through family trusts, Simon owns up to $100,000 of stock in USX-Marathon, an Exxon Mobil partner, and Occidental Petroleum, a Shell partner. The trusts own between $4,000 and $20,000 worth of stock in Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell Oil Co. and ChevronTexaco; both hold California offshore leases.

While Simon owns some oil stock, campaign strategist Jeff Flint said, Davis has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from companies including ChevronTexaco and Occidental, including $176,000 last year alone.

Simon also owns hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Seacor Smit Inc., a Houston-based drilling and shipping company, and its former subsidiary, Chiles Offshore Inc., which specializes in offshore drilling.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents indicate that one-third of Chiles Offshore's business comes from Shell. Seacor Smit, meanwhile, established what its chairman called a "toehold" on the California coast last year when it bought a West Coast supply vessel.

SEC documents and the Simon campaign indicate that South Street Capital LLC, an investment firm controlled by the Simon family, sold about $4 million in Chiles stock last year. Simon declared no income from the stock sale in the financial disclosure report he filed with the Fair Political Practices Commission, but reported owning a maximum of $1 million invested by South Street in the company.

Campaign finance reports and Simon's disclosure forms show some offshore oil money may have gone to his campaign. He sold hundreds of thousands worth of energy stocks last year as he poured more than $4 million of his own money into his campaign. Meanwhile, Simon's siblings, who share in family trust profits, have given him at least $750,000.

Last year, Simon sold as much as $100,000 worth of stock in Diamond Offshore Drilling of Houston, which engaged in three drilling projects off California's coast in the 1980s....

His father, William E. Simon, was President Nixon's "energy czar" through the Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s before becoming treasury secretary. In 1988, Simon and his brother joined their father in William E. Simon & Sons, an investment firm with substantial holdings in the energy industry.

Corporate records from Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi show Simon was a vice president and director through the mid-1990s in Paramount Oil Co. of Baton Rouge, La., and Shore Oil Co. of Houston, oil and exploration companies that had extensive holdings in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Paramount merged into Shore, which later merged with a firm that eventually became 3TEC Energy. Simon sold up to $100,000 in 3TEC shares last year; family trusts own as much as $1 million in 3TEC stock.

Those companies drilled off the Gulf of Mexico coast, Flint said, so it's not "fair to tie Bill's investments" to California.

Oil, gas and other energy company executives have also donated thousands to Simon's campaign, state campaign finance records show.

They include $5,000 from Tesoro Petroleum, a Texas-based company active in offshore drilling, and $22,000 from people and firms connected to Alvin V. Shoemaker, former chairman of First Boston Corp. and a director of Shore Oil and Paramount. Occidental contributed $10,000.

Davis this month accused Simon of profiting from California's energy crisis through business dealings with El Paso Natural Gas, which regulators alleged helped drive up gas and electricity prices last summer.

A Simon family investment company owns between $10,000 and $100,000 in El Paso stock. Simon also sold as much as $100,000 worth of stock last year in 3TEC Energy Corp., 20 percent of which is owned by an investment arm of El Paso.

Simon is a major investor and former board member of Houston-based Hanover Compressor Co., which does business with companies such as El Paso and the bankrupt energy giant Enron.

Davis himself is defending his acceptance since 1996 of $119,500 in campaign funds from Enron.

Simon's charitable foundation also benefits from extensive oil and gas investments, primarily Hanover Compressor.

While Simon was a board member, Hampton joined Enron in a Venezuela-based partnership, SEC records show, before Enron's collapse. After Simon left the board, Hanover ran into Enron-style accounting problems this year over its involvement in the Hampton Roads gas project off the coast of Nigeria with California leaseholder Shell Oil Co.

Though the California Coastal Commission and the state attorney general also are parties to California's suit against the Bush administration, Simon if he became governor could use his legal and budgetary power to end the state's efforts.

"He could make it not just difficult ---- impossible" to continue, said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Democratic Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

Eleven environmental groups have joined the state's suit, arguing that most Californians want to defend their world-famous coastline.

Simon agrees "there should not be any new exploration or drilling off the coast of California," Flint said. However, he said Simon has taken no position on what he would do with existing contracts such as are at stake in the California suit.

"He would have to take a look at it," Flint said.

For more, see: www.kycbs.net/SimonSays.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-30-08):

January 17, 2002

State settles oil
suit for 1%

The $2 billion action over
inflated gas prices finally
sputters out for a penny
on the dollar

By Tim Ruel, Star-Bulletin

The state has agreed to end its three-year price-fixing lawsuit against Hawaii's major oil companies in return for a $20 million settlement from the five firms still fighting the case, a payment that would be 1 percent of the roughly $2 billion the state had been seeking.

A deal in principle was reached between all sides yesterday after six months of mediation, said attorney Clyde Matsui, who served as mediator and discovery master in the suit. The companies and the state must still negotiate specific points of the settlement, he said. Matsui would not comment on the specific amount of the settlement.

The settlement is about $20 million, according to a person familiar with the deal who requested anonymity. The amount could change in the final agreement.

The money comes on top of $15 million the state won in a settlement in 2000 with two companies, BHP Hawaii Inc. and Tesoro Petroleum Corp., which opted out of the suit and denied wrongdoing. Still contesting the case were Hawaii's market leader, Chevron Corp., as well as Tosco Corp., Texaco Inc., Shell Oil Co. and Unocal Corp.

"If it's $20 million, we all lost," said Frank Young, a former Chevron dealer and frequent critic of the company. Chevron sued in 1999 to evict Young from the Kakaako station operated by his company since 1953, and under a confidential settlement, Young abandoned the station on Tuesday. "I'm all depressed now," Young said.

He added that he hoped the state Legislature would react to the deal by discussing regulations for Hawaii's gas prices, which have long been among the highest in the nation.

"It is a settlement that I am a little disappointed in," Gov. Ben Cayetano said yesterday morning to reporters. "But it depends on the perspective of the judges." Local oil prices have gone down since the state filed the suit, Cayetano noted.

The state sued the companies in October 1998, alleging the firms secretly formed a conspiracy to milk profits from Hawaii's drivers by keeping prices artificially high. The firms denied the charges and said that the lawsuit, filed shortly before the 1998 gubernatorial election, was political.

The settlement comes at a significant point in the case, as senior U.S. District Judge Samuel King considers motions for summary judgment argued by the oil companies in hearings in November. In summary judgment a defendant seeks to dismiss entire counts, or even a whole case, on the basis that there is not enough evidence to warrant a trial. In rebuttal the state said it had plenty of evidence, including documents that showed officials at competing companies were sharing their local wholesale prices.

The state also said it had proof that Chevron, operator of one of two oil refineries in Hawaii, would sell gasoline to the other companies with the understanding that the firms would not seek better prices elsewhere, such as by importing.

Shortly before the November hearings, King ordered that the oil companies come up with a plan to open the summary motion documents to the public. The documents, like the bulk of filings in the case, have been under seal. The oil companies have argued that the information should be secret because many of the documents contain competitive financial information. In his order, however, King noted that much of the case rests on the extent of the profits the companies have earned from the Hawaii market.

All the documents in the case would eventually become available to the public, but the oil companies would have the opportunity to blot out specific pieces of information. It is not clear how much the companies would be able to redact.

It will be interesting to see how much information about the profitability of the companies becomes public, because the data could enrage people or mean nothing at all, said Tim Hamilton, a mainland petroleum analyst who has studied Hawaii's market. The whole point of an antitrust lawsuit should be to uncover a trail of collusion, Hamilton said.

"If these documents go public, the Legislature will have a trail to follow. The public will be upset even more than it is now, and there's a chance the Legislature will take an action," Hamilton said.

In March 1998, months before the state filed suit, the Star-Bulletin published a story with an analysis by Hamilton that said Hawaii consumers were overcharged more than $81 million for gasoline in the previous 14 months because of artificially high wholesale prices. At the time, Chevron and other companies said the analysis was simplistic and flawed.

In recent court filings, the state said that any potential damages from the suit would likely go to the state highway fund, not directly to consumers. The fund generally pays for road maintenance, but some money has been transferred to the state's general fund, according to records kept by the state Transportation Department.

The latest negotiations between the state and the companies began on Monday, a convenient time, since lawyers from all sides were in town for hearings on separate matters that had been scheduled this week, Matsui said. "This is the most intense 36 hours I've ever been through," said Matsui, who has handled mediation in lawsuits involving the former Bishop Estate and the Board of Water Supply. "We started off Monday with everyone hollering 'no.'"

The court ordered the state and the companies not to talk about details of the settlement until an agreement has been finalized, and representatives of both sides declined comment today. The settlement should be filed with the court soon for public review, and a hearing would be scheduled for King to sign off.

Because the state sued on behalf of Hawaii's residents, people will have the right to say they want to be excluded from the terms of the settlement, Matsui said. He noted that members of the public have rarely exercised that right.

The gasoline antitrust lawsuit

Key developments in the state's antitrust lawsuit:

>> March 1998: Gov. Ben Cayetano directs the state attorney general to determine whether an investigation of Hawaii's highest-in-the-nation gas prices is warranted.

>> Oct. 2, 1998: State files $500 million suit against Hawaii's two refineries and major gasoline wholesalers for allegedly overcharging local consumers for years. Named in the lawsuit are 13 corporations, including Chevron Corp., BHP Hawaii Inc., Shell Oil Co., Texaco Inc., Tesoro Petroleum Corp., Tosco Corp. and Unocal Corp.

>> March 14, 1999: Judge Samuel P. King rejects oil company motions to dismiss the state's antitrust suit.

>> March 25, 1999: State ups the amount of the lawsuit to $1.8 billion, saying the companies profited far more than first anticipated.

>> January 2000: BHP Hawaii Inc. and Tesoro Petroleum Corp. settle the suit and deny wrongdoing. They pay the state $15 million.

>> July 2001: The five remaining defendants -- Chevron Corp., Tosco Corp., Texaco Inc., Shell Oil Co. and Unocal Corp. -- file motions under seal seeking a summary judgment to dismiss the case.

>> November 2001: Judge King orders some court filings opened to the public and hears arguments over the motions for summary judgment.

>> Jan. 16, 2002: The state and five defendants reach a tentative settlement for a reported payment of $20 million.

http://starbulletin.com/2002/01/17/news/story1.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (05-26-08):

The Global Economy's Investment
In Prostitution

Another Perspective

Want to know a few of the results of the move towards the so-called "Global Economy" which has become the nirvana Corporate America seeks? Be very careful, you might not like what you find.

According to U.N. documents, 4 million women a year are sold into sexual slavery around the world. Understand, these documents aren't discussing some Mid- Eastern potentate's harem. What we're talking about is 500,000 women "imported" into Western Europe and 90,000 into Italy, alone. These women are kidnapped and sold into prostitution for the gratification of men like the late Larry Hilblom, the founder of DHL courier service. Hilblom, it should be added, also participated in the kidnapping and sales of many young women, as well.

The majority of these women, who are mostly just young girls, come from the countries once known as client states of the old Soviet Union, such as Albania and the Ukraine. In fact, the selling of girls for the sexual gratification of wealthy men has become a major export for many of the supposedly free nations from the former Soviet bloc.

Amazingly, many of these women are moved through our ally Israel. The reason Israel is a major center for these atrocities is that Israel has absolutely no laws against the sale or ownership of other humans. Now there is wonderful reason to continue our hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid to this moral back water of a country.

The main reason that these crimes can so easily occur is the demand by the world's corporations that there be few or no inspections at national borders and that, with corporations buying up governments just like ours at bargain prices, they own the decisions to investigate crimes and, of course, see no reason to investigate the very crimes they, themselves, are committing.

Now, of course, America is immune from these charges, aren't we. I mean, this is the country where politicians spend their entire careers shouting about their fairy tale world of "family values", right? Our government would immediately spring into action should even a hint of this crime appear within our borders, right?

Wrong, of course. Thai women were imported into the United States and forced into sexual slavery in New York, Houston and Toronto, according to stories in the LA Times, New York Times and Dallas Morning News.

How long will it take the corporate prostitutes in Washington, D.C., to even acknowledge these crimes? How many conservatives do you think are going to stand up in protest against these horrors against humanity? How many will demand hundreds of billions of dollars to fight these crimes against humanity? What is less than none?

Unless America wakes up to these violations against humanity and demands action from the blow hards in office, nothing, whatsoever, will ever happen. Why? Because the victims do not fall within the parameters these vile people respect. These are young girls from foreign countries that don't contribute to American political coffers, nor are they related to anyone who owns enough property to matter to American politicians. If they were all Republican, Christian, wealthy wives and daughters of campaign contributors then this would be a problem of cosmic proportion. They aren't, so the problem is ignored.

These crimes against women are only the most extreme examples of the damage that is being done to people all over the world in the name of corporate profits. Add in the disease ridden fruit coming into America from countries which have little in the way of health and safety laws and food covered with the pesticides that America banned so Corporate America sold its stock to the same Third World countries now supplying us with our daily fruits and vegetables and grains.

Consider the effects that corrupt rulers the world over have regarding the financial health of your retirement and investments and, if the idiots who hate government safety nets have their way, your Social Security. Consider the damage another episode like the Hunt brothers attempt to corner the silver market would have on America if it were done by a nation or groups of nations. Finally, consider the costs of a simple computer virus invading the systems which control what will be the world's financial institution.

You, as an individual, have absolutely nothing to gain in a global economy. In fact, you will be the loser if you continue to listen to the lies and do not begin fighting the mutation of your world into a world corporation where the wealthy would rule through unlimited economic power. As in all things, it is your choice but your inaction will affect billions of people for centuries to come.

http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc150.html

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-22-08): David Farmer’s undisclosed connections with AIPAC and Faye Kurren:

From Exhibit: “CONNECTING THE DIRTY DOTS TO AIPAC”:

David C. Farmer, Successor-Trustee vs. Harmon

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

CV05-00030 DAE KSC

U.S. District Court For the District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

—

DEFENDANT’S EXHIBIT

—

A few words of explanation:

In his "MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO DEBTOR'S MOTION FOR ORDER TO DISAPPROVE APPOINTMENT OF DAVID C. FARMER AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE", filed with the Court on August 24, 2007, the Trustee's attorney, Steven Guttman, Esq., of the law firm, Kessner Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga, stated to the Court:

"... Harmon is once again attempting to create issues of conflict where none exist by attempting to draw connections between phantom dots."...

Mr. Guttman does not elaborate beyond this simple statement of HIS PERSONAL OPINION, as to WHICH of the thousands of connections I have cited that he wishes the Court to accept, without question, as being merely "phantom dots". In other court filings, Mr. Guttman has characterized my Motions as consisting of "conspiracy theories" -- again with no specific references.

Despite these unnamed "phantom dots" and "conspiracy theories", the Court has blithely and unquestionably gone along with Mr. Guttman's opinions and has repeatedly denied ALL Motions that I have made. In fact, both Courts involved have ruled that the Court Clerk shall not accept any future filings from me without the Courts' prior approval - which it has repeatedly declined to give.

Therefore, due to the fact that I continue to discover new, material FACTS almost daily, I am preparing a set of NEW EXHIBITS in which I intend to document the financial, professional, personal, and political connections between the many various entities involved in this case.

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The following is a listing of named witnesses in this case who have factual connections with the subject entity. Each underlined name has been linked to a detailed description of that witness to enable the reader to more easily CONNECT THE DOTS TO...

Judith Neustadter Fuqua

James B. “Jim” Nicholson

Dan Inouye

Joshua Gotbaum

LEARN MORE ABOUT AIPAC:

http://www.stopaipac.org/

http://www.stopaipac.org/spystory.htm

www.hadassah.org/education/content/influentials_israel.asp

http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/021108/hawaii.shtml

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1721.htm

http://www.antiwar.com/cole/?articleid=3467

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/06/lfow.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AIPAC

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/03/6138/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zidtiC-UPNU

http://www.franklingate.com/aipac-cheney.htm

http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC-Obama.mht

http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC-Bush-Abramoff-Greenberg.mht

http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC-Mische-7-11-7.mht

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vwV6O5AGKyw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8gHmJUa720

http://ifamericaknew.com/us_ints/mc-aipac.html

http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=9697

www.literarylotus.com/2007/12/wimr-brian-schatz.html

http://www.kycbs.net/AIPAC-Lingle-Abramoff-Brownstein.mht

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-11-08): Trustee James B. Nicholson failed to disclose that he was the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee for Defendant’s witness, Peter Savio, even though he was asked specifically if he had any business, professional, personal or political relationships with Mr. Savio:

August, 2003

Hawaii’s Top 250 Companies:

New To The List: Whoa, Savio!

Hawaiian Island Homes' debut is marked by acrimony

By Kelli Abe Trifonovitch, Hawaii Business Magazine

Any interview that focuses on Peter Savio's new company, Hawaiian Island Homes Ltd., will soon focus on another Top 250 company, Central Pacific Bank. Says Savio: "They're malicious. They're vicious. I am going to become a stockholder in Central Pacific Bank. I am going to reform that institution. Their mistake was they stomped me. They didn't kill me. I'm coming back. I'm going to have fun with them."

Go back to the year 2001. Savio Inc., a holding company for eight real estate sales and development companies, was No. 56 on the Top 250, with $134.6 million in 2000 gross sales. But in 2001, Savio Inc. filed for Chapter 7 liquidation, and Peter Savio and his wife filed for personal bankruptcy protection. Savio says he was forced into the bankruptcies because CPB gave him just five days to move from his second-floor offices at 931 University Ave. Savio says he had been in a workout plan with a number of lenders after he started experiencing cash-flow problems in the mid-1990s. But CPB forced his hand.

"The only way to stop them was, I had to file for personal bankruptcy. So to save my employees and everything else, I filed for personal bankruptcy - one of the most difficult decisions I've ever had to make. But I was really pissed at Central Pacific Bank for doing that," he says.

"It was tough," he adds. "Basically I lost everything. Lost my house. Lost everything. Had to basically come back from nothing."

Today, Savio is more than back. His real estate company, Hawaiian Island Homes Ltd., lists 2002 gross sales of $177 million. Its office is downstairs in the same building that Savio Inc.'s once was. And the company is No. 27, ahead of CPB Inc. (No. 49), something Savio will rejoice to read. Savio says, "I've decided that my goal is to beat them in the Top 250. … just so we can say, 'Nannynannybooboo!'"

That's not all. "My short-term and my long-term goal is to reform Central Pacific Bank," Savio says. "I think I'm going to buy the bank."

Ann Takiguchi, Central Pacific Financial's communications officer, says, "We made every effort to work with Mr. Savio, and it is unfortunate that he is blaming us for his situation. Out of respect for our customers' privacy, we have no further comment. As a matter of bank policy, we don't comment on the affairs of our customers."

Bankruptcy court filings show that Central Pacific Bank claimed that Savio Inc. owed it about $1.5 million when Savio filed for bankruptcy in 2001. The Internal Revenue Service and Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. also listed claims of about $2,000 each.

The court-appointed trustee for Savio Inc.'s bankruptcy case, attorney Jim Nicholson, says the only unencumbered asset of the estate, a unit in the Diamond Head Beach apartment building, was sold for $375,000 in June 2003.

Gross sales for Savio's other new company, Hawaiian Island Development, were not reported for this year's Top 250, so one thing is for sure: Next year, he'll be back. Says Savio: "We're going to set up a new holding company called, 'I Hate CPB.' No, my attorney said I couldn't do that. I have a warped sense of humor, OK? But anyway, the new holding company is going to be Ohia Holdings."

Knowing Savio, there is marked symbolism in that choice. After all, the Ohia tree can be found growing in the middle of old lava flows.

Hawaii Business, August, 2003

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NEW DISCOVERY (04-04-08):

WILLIAM J. CLINTON FOUNDATION

Speech: Remarks at the Goldman Sachs & Company 2004 Global Conference

December 3, 2004

New York, NY

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Hank, for that wonderful introduction. I probably should quit while I’m ahead. [LAUGHTER] And thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the warm welcome.

I admire Hank Paulson very much for many things. His interest in Asia and our long-term relationship with the Asian Pacific community and particularly his leadership of the Nature Conservancy, some of you may not be familiar with it, but it is the principal private organization facilitating the preservation of precious natural land in the United States, and increasingly, in other places on the globe. I don’t think I ever told Hank this. But when I was the Governor of Arkansas, we used the Nature Conservancy more than any other State in the country.

I also want thank the people at Goldman Sachs, many of whom have contributed to the work of my Foundation, and the work we do around the world to try to fight AIDS and extend economic opportunity, to promote education and citizen service and to try to bridge the racial and religious divides that still bedevil the world. And I want thank Goldman Sachs for hiring at least a dozen people, who worked in the White House and other places in the administration. I was worried about what all those young people were going to do when we left office. [LAUGHS] So I am deeply in your debt....

www.kycbs.net/Clinton-Speech-2004-Global-Conference.mht

See also:

www.kycbs.net/Confessions.htm

www.kycbs.net/GoldmanSachs.htm

www.kycbs.net/MaunawiliValley.htm

www.kycbs.net/NatureConservancy.htm

www.kycbs.net/Nature-Conservancy-Hawaii.htm

www.kycbs.net/Global-Fund.htm

www.kycbs.net/Peregrine-Fund.htm

www.kycbs.net/Peregrine-Gallery.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Paulson-Henry.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Rubin-Robert.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Peters-Henry.htm

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

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Mailer-Dee-Jay.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Clinton-Bill.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Clinton-Hillary.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Alston-Paul.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Fuqua-Judith.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Apoliona-Haunani.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Dunn-Greg.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Arrigo-Sue.htm

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

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Crowe-William.htm

www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Kissinger-Henry.htm

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

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NEW DISCOVERY (04/09/08): Undisclosed connections between First Hawaiian Bank, Dee Jay Mailer, Faye Kurren and, therefore, Judge Barry Kurren:

May 18, 2005

FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF
HIAM, KURREN, MAILER AS DIRECTORS

First Hawaiian Bank today announced the election of three new members to its Board of Directors. They are:

Robert P. Hiam, President & Chief Executive Officer of Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA);

Faye Watanabe Kurren, President of Hawaii Dental Services; and

Dee Jay Mailer, Chief Executive Officer of Kamehameha Schools.

“First Hawaiian is fortunate that these three talented executives, all of whom have deep roots in Hawai‘i, have agreed to serve,” said First Hawaiian Chief Executive Officer Don Horner. “They add a wealth of experience to our Board.”

Hiam has been President and Chief Executive Officer of HMSA, Hawaii’s largest health care plan, since 1995. He has been with HMSA since 1970, previously serving as Chief Financial Officer and head of Government Programs and Data Processing.

Hiam attended Pacific Lutheran University in Washington and graduated from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He is Chairman of the Board of Aloha United Way, Pacific Health Research Institute and the HMSA Foundation and also serves on numerous boards of directors for the health care industry and on many nonprofit boards in the Islands.

Kurren was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaii Dental Service, the largest provider of dental benefits in the state, in 2003. Previously, she served as President of Tesoro Hawaii Corp. from 1998 to 2003, overseeing its refining, distribution and retail operations for the mid-Pacific region. Kurren originally joined Pacific Resources, Inc. (PRI) as legal counsel in 1984. PRI later became BHP Hawaii and then Tesoro.

A graduate of Punahou School, Kurren holds a law degree from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; a master’s from the University of Chicago; and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. She is the chair of the Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women and serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards of directors.

Before becoming Kamehameha CEO last year, Mailer had a 27-year career in health care, including serving as Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i. She later served as Chief Administrative and Operating Officer of Health Net, Inc., a California health insurance program, and as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of The Global Fund, a Swiss foundation that supports health programs in developing countries.

Mailer, a graduate of Kamehameha, earned a degree in nursing and an MBA from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She has been active in the Hawai`i Business Roundtable and in several nonprofit boards of directors.

About First Hawaiian Bank

First Hawaiian Bank ($10.8 billion assets) was founded in 1858 and is Hawaii's oldest and largest bank. It has 56 branches in Hawaii, three on Guam and two on Saipan.

http://www.firsthawaiianbank.com/hm_news051805.htm

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NEW DISCOVERY (01-14-08) - Re: Undisclosed relationships of Faye Kurren with Shell Oil Company; Punahou School (see Witnesses Barack Obama, Dan Case, Steve Case, Robert Miller)

For details, see: Buzzards in the Halls of Punahou; Shell Game; Vultures in The Nature Conservancy

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NEW DISCOVERY (01-12-08) - Re: Undisclosed relationships with Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Nature Conservancy, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Young, Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources, Hawaiian Home Lands, OHA, etc.

For details, see: Blue Gold in Blue Hawaii; Hawaii Nature Conservancy; Hawaii Home Lands; Vultures in the Sandwich Isles

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December 30, 2007

Rodrigues’ term upheld

A judge rules that the former labor leader must
report to prison Jan. 7 as scheduled

By Debra Barayuga, Star-Bulletin

Convicted labor leader Gary Rodrigues will report to prison on Jan. 7 as scheduled, a federal judge ruled.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge David Ezra denied Rodrigues' request to delay his 64-month prison term until April 1, saying he wasn't swayed by the former labor leader's arguments.

Rodrigues had sought an extension because he plans to file a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging his conviction on 101 felony counts. The defense has vigorously maintained that Rodrigues committed no crime.

Rodrigues and daughter Robin Sabatini were found guilty and sentenced on Sept. 30, 2003, to multiple charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to launder money, health care fraud, theft of union funds and accepting kickbacks from an employee benefit plan. Sabatini was sentenced to 46 months.

Both were allowed to remain free on bail pending the resolution of their appeal to the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit affirmed the jury's verdict on June 11.

Ezra affirmed the sentences for both father and daughter on Oct. 31 and ordered them to begin serving their sentence Jan. 7.

Rodrigues sought the extension because he has two pending civil cases in federal court and is due to testify in both cases, which are set for trial on Jan. 15 and March 11, respectively.

Government attorneys had called the request for an extension "yet another delay tactic."

"It is time for this defendant to start serving his prison term," wrote assistant U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni in the government's opposition.

Ezra noted that Rodrigues did not meet the statutory requirements for the release of an individual who has been convicted, sentenced and has filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court is required to find that the defendant presented clear and convincing evidence that he is not likely to flee or pose a danger to the community. The court said it did not know the basis for the petition and therefore could not determine whether the appeal would raise any issues that would likely result in a reversal of the verdict.

http://starbulletin.com/2007/12/30/news/story03.html

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New Discovery (01/05/08) - Political and financial relationships between Oprah Winfrey, The Nature Conservancy, and witness Faye Kurren (wife of Judge Barry Kurren):

East Maui Watershed Partnership

The Nature Conservancy

In late 1999, the Conservancy's Board of Governors chose the East Maui Watershed Partnership to receive the organization's highest honor: The President's Conservation Achievement Award. This award is given to an individual or organization that works in partnership with The Nature Conservancy to advance biodiversity protection. Out of all the partnerships in which the Conservancy is involved globally, only six receive this award annually.

The East Maui Watershed Partnership has pioneered a model for protecting large landscapes quickly and efficiently. Before this partnership, the Conservancy had helped protect 50,000 acres in Hawai`i. This one project alone brings active management to more than 100,000 acres of critical watershed and native forest habitat.

Our Approach

The East Maui Watershed Partnership (EMWP) was formed in 1991 through the joint initiative of the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy, the County of Maui - Board of Water Supply, Haleakala Ranch Co., East Maui Irrigation Co., Ltd., Haleakala National Park, and Hana Ranch. Since its formation, the EMWP has made significant strides to control Miconia calvenscens and has built strategic, upper-elevation fences to control feral pigs.

"Perhaps the most important reason the Conservancy recognized the partnership is for its role as a model for similar partnerships throughout Hawai`i, including the West Maui Mountains Watershed Partnership, the East Moloka`i Watershed Partnership, and the Ko`olau Watershed Partnership on O`ahu," said Suzanne Case, Executive Director of the Hawai`i Chapter. "By working together as neighbors, under a unified management plan, we exponentially expand the effort that each group can make to protect East Maui's natural resources."

For more, GO TO > > > Blue Gold in Blue Hawaii

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May 11, 2006

The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters
in the United States

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), Univ. of Massachusetts [USA]

1. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours [DuPont], 2. United States Steel , 3. ConocoPhillips, 4. General Electric , 5. Eastman Kodak, 6. Exxon Mobil, 7. Ford , 8. Tyson Foods, 9. Alcoa, 10. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 11. Dow Chemical, 12. Eastman Chemical, 13. Boeing, 14. Nucor, 15. Georgia-Pacific, 16. AK Steel , 17. Northrop Grumman, 18. Deere & Co. [John Deere], 19. Dominion Resources, 20. General Motors, 21. Delphi, 22. Tesoro, 23. Phelps Dodge, 24. Temple-Inland , 25. Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 26. Allegheny Technologies, 27. International Paper, 28. Valero Energy, 29. Progress Energy, 30. Kerr-McGee, 31. Danaher, 32. Engelhard, 33. Constellation Energy Group, 34. Berkshire Hathaway, 35. American Electric Power, 36. Reliant Energy, 37. Teco Energy, 38. Becton, Dickinson [BD], 39. Premcor [now part of Valero], 40. Anheuser-Busch, 41. Tyco International, 42. Weyerhaeuser, 43. United Technologies (UTC), 44. Honeywell International, 45. Owens Corning, 46. Duke Energy, 47. Occidental Petroleum, 48. Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), 49. Cinergy [now part of Duke Energy], 50. Ashland, 51. AES, 52. Procter & Gamble, 53. Lyondell Chemical, 54. Leggett & Platt, 55. Sunoco, 56. Emerson Electric, 57. MeadWestvaco, 58. FirstEnergy, 59. Ball, 60. Textron, 61. Rowan, 62. Smurfit-Stone Container, 63. Mirant, 64. Chevron, 65. Southern, 66. ArvinMeritor, 67. Lear, 68. Visteon, 69. Monsanto, 70. 3M, 71. Xcel Energy, 72. Crown Holdings, 73. Rohm & Haas, 74. Federal-Mogul, 75. PPG Industries, 76. Great Lakes Chemical, 77. ICI American Holdings [part of ICI], 78. Corning, 79. El Paso, 80. Heartland Industrial Partners, 81. Amerada Hess, 82. Allegheny Energy, 83. Exelon, 84. Marathon Oil, 85. Goodrich, 86. Armstrong Holdings, 87. Shaw Group, 88. Praxair, 89. Pfizer, 90. Brunswick, 91. Ameren, 92. Dana, 93. Altria , 94. Hercules, 95. Stanley Works, 96. Kimberly-Clark, 97. Harley-Davidson, 98. Mohawk Industries, 99. Plum Creek Timber, 100. Illinois Tool Works

www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/

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August 4, 2003

Faye Kurren named president of
Hawaii Dental Service

Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

Faye Kurren, former president of Tesoro Hawaii Corp., will be the new president and CEO of Hawaii Dental Service beginning Sept. 3, the company announced Monday.

Kurren replaces Jonathan Won, who has been HDS president and CEO since 2000. He had announced in May that he was leaving the company.

Kurren has held executive leadership positions with companies such as Pacific Resources Inc. as counsel in 1984 and BHP Hawaii (formerly PRI) as vice president and general counsel.

When Tesoro Petroleum Corp. acquired BHP Hawaii in 1998, Kurren became president, overseeing refining, distribution and retail operations for the mid-Pacific region.

"Faye brings to HDS a solid track record of strong leadership," said Jay Kanegawa, chairman of HDS' board of directors. "Her local leadership experience and perspectives will strengthen HDS to better serve Hawaii's residents, businesses and organizations."

Kurren, a graduate of Punahou School, has a law degree from the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, a master's degree in sociology from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford University.

She's a member of the boards of the University of Hawaii Foundation, Girl Scout Council of Hawaii, the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and Waikiki Aquarium.

HDS is the state's largest nonprofit dental service provider.

For more, GO TO > > > The Peregrine Gallery presents...Faye Kurren; David Farmer, Trustee vs. Harmon: Witness Barack Obama; Witness Oprah Winfrey; Witness Gary Rodrigues

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March 8, 2001

Indictment:
Rodrigues skimmed
$200,000

The UPW director is charged with
fraud, embezzlement and
money laundering

By Ian Lind. Star-Bulletin

United Public Workers Director Gary Rodrigues skimmed more than $200,000 from two union health benefit plans by arranging secret payments to companies owned by his daughter, Robin Haunani Rodrigues Sabatini, according to a 43-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Honolulu.

The payments were made at Rodrigues' direction by two insurers, Hawaii Dental Service and Pacific Group Medical Association, the indictment alleges.

Rodrigues and Sabatini face multiple counts of mail fraud, defrauding a health care benefit program, embezzlement, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The indictment could bring an end to Rodrigues' nearly three decades at the helm of the 15,000-member United Public Workers, one of the state's largest unions.

Doron Weinberg, a San Francisco attorney representing Rodrigues in the criminal case, said last night that it is "a little premature" to comment on the possibility he will step down from his union post....

Weinberg said he was retained by Rodrigues in late 1998 after a series of Star-Bulletin stories on alleged misuse of union resources by the UPW leader.

Honolulu attorney Robert F. Miller, who has represented the UPW in this matter, declined comment pending a meeting with the union's executive board.

The indictment alleges that UPW members unknowingly paid inflated fees for health care benefits under contracts negotiated by Rodrigues, who then directed the insurers to use the excess funds for payments to Sabatini's companies.

Although described as consulting fees, Sabatini did little or no work, according to the indictment.

Fees paid to daughter

On March 25, 1996, HDS made a lump sum payment of $25,381.19 to Sabatini's Four Winds RSK Inc. for consultant fees covering the period January 1994 through December 1995, although the company "was not in existence until February 1996 and could not have and did not perform any consulting work for UPW," the indictment said.

During 1996, Sabatini distributed $36,600 from Four Winds accounts to herself and other family members, the indictment alleges.

During 1997, Four Winds paid $54,600 to Sabatini and family members, and made a $35,000 distribution to her own pension plan.

The indictment lists 14 payments totaling more than $150,000 to Sabatini's companies between March 1996 and December 1998 involving funds originating with the UPW-HDS contract.

Sabatini also received more than $147,000 in a series of payments from PGMA and a sister company, Pacific Equity Growth and Management, during 1996.

Sabatini later distributed funds to Rodrigues and other family members, the indictment alleges, including $14,213.64 for purchase of a 1997 Ford Ranger truck registered in Rodrigues' name.

The payments to Sabatini began in early 1996 and continued through December 1998 but were never disclosed to the union's executive board or membership, according to the indictment.

U.S. Attorney Steven S. Alm said union members were defrauded of money paid for health benefits which instead went to benefit Rodrigues and his family.

"UPW members were also defrauded of their right to the honest services of their union director," Alm said.

The indictment seeks to recover $200,200 allegedly paid to Sabatini and Rodrigues, but Alm called that figure "very, very conservative."

The maximum penalty for mail fraud and embezzlement is five years of imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for each count. Defrauding a health benefit program has a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The two money-laundering conspiracy charges and related charges each carry maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000.

A conviction could also result in Rodrigues being barred from holding any union post as an employee, officer or even a consultant.

HDS premiums 'inflated'?

The indictment is the first to result from a continuing three-year investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Review Service, the FBI, the U.S. attorney's office and the Honolulu Police Department.

According to the indictment, Rodrigues' theft of union funds began in June 1992 when he negotiated a contract with HDS to provide dental benefits for union members and their families.

Rodrigues also negotiated an addendum to the contract calling for a consulting fee to be paid to a designated consultant, with the cost of the consulting fee added to the premium charged to the UPW and its members.

The HDS contract was disclosed to the UPW executive board, but Rodrigues "did not disclose the fact that the premiums charged by HDS were inflated to include the consulting fee," the indictment alleges.

The consulting fee was paid to an unidentified individual to pay off a personal loan made earlier to Rodrigues, according to the indictment.

The indictment does not identify the consultant, who was described as deceased.

However, former UPW employee Allan J. Loughrin was paid $10,000 by HDS as a consultant during the same time period, according to members of Loughrin's family.

Loughrin's son, Walter Parker, told the Star-Bulletin in 1998 that the consultant contract was arranged by the union as a means to repay a personal loan Loughrin made to Rodrigues.

Loughrin's daughter, Georgietta Carroll, was Rodrigues' secretary and had a personal relationship with the union director. Rodrigues and Carroll jointly purchased property in Bend, Ore., in the mid-1980s and built a home there, real estate records show.

Loughrin died in 1997.

Arraignment due soon

The indictment alleges that after the personal loan was paid off in March 1994, Rodrigues wrote to HDS asking that all consultant fees be held by the company "until further notification."

Two years later, in early 1996, Rodrigues instructed HDS to begin paying the consultant fees to Four Winds, formed by Sabatini in February 1996.

Four Winds also received fees from PGMA, which offered a union-sponsored health insurance plan to UPW members. The payments from PGMA continued through 1996 but ceased when the company became insolvent at the end of the year. PGMA was seized by state insurance regulators in March 1997.

After a January 1998 Star-Bulletin story disclosed the consultant fees by PGMA, Sabatini started a new company, Aulii Corp., which took over the assets of Four Winds and received the continued payments from HDS.

Beginning in February 1998, Rodrigues directed HDS to pay the consulting fees to the Voluntary Employees' Benefit Association of Hawaii, which in turn made payments to Sabatini's new company. The payments to Sabatini were made through an affiliate, Management Applied Programming Inc., the indictment charges.

At the time, Rodrigues was a director of VEBAH, which is linked both to UPW and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the state's largest public employee union.

VEBAH attorney Paul Schraff could not be reached for comment.

Weinberg said Rodrigues and Sabatini are expected to appear in court for arraignment in the next week or two, although no court date has been set.

www.starbulletin.com/2001/03/08/news/story1.html

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This witness is expected to testify regarding her personal, professional, business and social relationships with Judge Barry Kurren; Judge Kevin Chang; Judge David Ezra; Judge Lloyd King; Judge Robert Faris; Judge Samuel King; William S. Richardson; Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate; Governor Jennifer Granholm, Barack Obama; Eric Holder; Oprah Winfrey, The Nature Conservancy; Nature Conservancy Hawaii, Hawaii Nature Center, Jean Rolles, Outrigger Hotels; Henry Paulson; Ben Benson; William Simon; Kimo Kaloi; Elizabeth K. Lindsey Buyers, Walter A. Dods; First Hawaiian Bank; PNB Paribas; Dee Jay Mailer; Gerard Jervis; Rey Graulty; Oswald Stender; Greg Dunn; The Hawaii Nature Center; Judith Fuqua Neustadter; Linda Lingle; Bob Awana; Mark Bennett; Tesoro Hawaii; William Van Cleef; BP Petroleum; Brian Tsujimura; Aloha Petroleum; Goldman Sachs*; James Ahloy; James J.C. Haynes; University of Hawaii; Bishop Museum; Tim Johns; Mark Polivka; Fred Kraus; The Queen Emma Foundation; First Insurance Company of Hawaii; The Primate Reserve of Maui; Jeffrey Watanabe; Colbert Matsumoto; Dan Inouye; Bill Frist; Richard Rainwater; Norman Mineta; Gale Norton; Steven Griles; Ed Case; Neil Abercrombie; Peter Young; Jeff Stone; Leighton Mau; Peter Savio; Edward Y.C. Chun, Chun, Kerr, Dodd, Beaman & Wong; David Louie, Roeca, Louie & Hiraoka; Bill Mills; Bert Kobayashi; James Pflueger; Wayne Minami; Eric Yeaman; Peter Baldwin; David C. Cole; Duncan MacNaughton; Martin Luna; David Fairbanks; Samuel Cooke; Stanley Hong; Lawrence M. Johnson; Summit Communications; Carol Muranaka; Mary Lou Woo; Steven Guttman; Daniel Akaka; Barak Obama; Al Hee; Clayton Hee; Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA); Beadie Dawson; Gary Rodrigues, United Public Workers (UPW); Rocco Sansone, Robert F. Miller; Marsh & McLennan; Bert A. Kobayashi; Stanford S. Carr; Louise K.Y. Ing, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing; Paul Alston; Kenneth Hipp, Marr Hipp Jones & Pepper; William S. Richardson; Earl Anzai; Lyn Anzai; Nathan Aipa; Colleen Wong; Louanne Kam; Hamilton McCubbin; Evan Dobelle; University of Hawaii Foundation; Mark Fukunaga; Servco Pacific; Elizabeth Hanford Dole; J.W.A. “Doc” Buyers; Todd Apo; Robert Katz; Brewer Environmental Industries; C. Brewer & Co.; Hawaii Red Cross; Jeffrey Harris, Torkildson Katz Fonseca Moore & Hetherington; Matt Tsukazaki; Mary Lou Woo, James B. Nicholson, Curtis Ching, Philips Petroleum, Carl Icahn, Donald Rumsfeld, Senator Ted Stevens, David Farmer, Joshua Gotbaum, Larry Silverstein, First Hawaiian Bank, Walter Dods, Bill Mills, Oswald Stender, Ted Stevens, Robert Wrede, VECO International, Albert Chee, Linda Chu Takayama, El Paso Corp., and others to be named upon discovery.