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
DEE JAY MAILER
Dee Jay Mailer is CEO, Kamehameha Schools; Director, First Hawaiian Bank; former CEO of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii; former Chief Administrative and Operations Officer of Health Net, Inc.; and former Chief Operating Officer of The Global Fund.
Kamehameha Schools
567 S. King St., 2nd Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Officers of Kamehameha Schools
Dee Jay Mailer
Dee Jay Mailer’s professional experience has spanned the globe, but her work has always been focused on helping others. Named Chief Executive Officer effective on January 19, 2004, she now focuses her energies on educating children of Hawaiian ancestry, through the Kamehameha Schools, from which she graduated in 1970.
As the former Chief Operating Officer of The Global Fund, a private Swiss foundation created by the world’s top developed countries, Mailer, along with the Geneva based team, raised and distributed funds to support the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries. She created and managed the fund’s administrative operations in collaboration with international partners, including the World Bank and World Health Organization. During her tenure, some $3.4 billion was raised from international donors, $33 million of which was disbursed in grant funds to 92 countries.
Mailer’s healthcare career spans 27 years, and includes serving as Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i where she implemented a service-oriented culture, which improved health plan member satisfaction and retention rates to the highest levels in the State and within the national Kaiser program.
She left Kaiser in 1999 to become Chief Administrative and Operating Officer of Health Net, Inc., a health insurance program serving 2 million members in the State of California. Mailer later served as Senior Vice President of National Contracting and Claims Best Practices for the company.
Mailer earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She is also a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Executive Program, a business program for national healthcare executives offered in partnership with Stanford University.
Her past community contributions include being a board member and chairman elect of the Hawai`i Business Roundtable, chairman of the board of the Institute for Human Services Homeless Shelter.
She is also a member of several other boards, including the Pacific Research Institute, the Hawai`i Community Foundation, Aloha United Way, and the Junior Achievement School Mentoring Program....
www.ksbe.edu/about/chiefs/ceo.php
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The Dee Jay Mailer Photo Gallery
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August 12, 2009
University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino is in the midst of a scandal as he admitted to police that he had sex in a restaurant in August 2003 with Karen Sypher, the woman who is charged with attempting to extort him.
Pitino also admitted to giving Sypher $3,000 for an abortion after she informed him she was pregnant....
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RICK PITINO: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES?
July 13, 2003
Volleyball investigation recalls bad memories
By Dave Reardon, Star-Bulletin
It's extremely unlikely Hawaii will get the dreaded "death penalty" from the NCAA for using an ineligible player in men's volleyball. But the state's most venerable observer of sports sees the situation as life-and-death in the figurative sense.
"If they take the (2002 national) championship away that's a mortal blow for (coach Mike) Wilton, the team and the university," retired sportscaster Les Keiter said. "I can't see the NCAA just slapping them on the wrist."
UH athletic director Herman Frazier has sounded a confident tone since reports of a violation surfaced Wednesday. He has experience with the NCAA on serious compliance issues from his time at Arizona State, and said such dealings are a strength of his.
"From an NCAA standpoint I don't think they can call this a major problem," he said in a phone interview Thursday. "I think they will find the institution did everything humanly possible to be in compliance."
But if they don't, Keiter said, forfeiting the school's only national championship in a men's sport -- and in a sport that is so popular here -- could put a pall over the UH athletic department second only to the men's basketball scandal of the mid-1970s. That one ended with two years of NCAA probation, a scattering of promising coaches and players, and a team that went 1-26 in 1977-78.
The long time TV voice of the program agrees. But Jim Leahey added that the volleyball situation could turn out worse than the basketball scandal.
"The difference is basketball was nowhere near a national championship, and in this situation they may have to take down the flag. This is worse," Leahey said. "The basketball team was very popular, but this is also a team that is deeply loved by the people."
UH has had several brushes with the NCAA over the years, most of them fairly minor eligibility issues. Until the potentially catastrophic volleyball revelations last week, they were all the equivalent of parking violations when compared to what befell the basketball program in 1976 and 1977.
Hawaii was hoops crazy in the early 1970s with the success of the Fabulous Five, and later, Thomas Henderson, a future Olympian and NBA starter whom many consider the program's greatest player.
On Feb. 3, 1976, UH was notified by the NCAA that four players -- Henry Hollingsworth, Gary Gray, George Ritter and David Knight -- broke rules by appearing in a TV commercial for Cutter Ford. "The Cutter Four" (of whom only Hollingsworth was a starter) is what people remember most about the scandal. But it was the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
The TV commercial was a relatively minor transgression ("they weren't getting cars," Leahey recalled), but it brought on an NCAA investigation that discovered 68 violations of 18 rules. The university itself and its student government also investigated, and discovered "a host of irregularities," including payment of apartment rentals by head coach Bruce O'Neil.
On May 7, 1977, the hammer fell. According to Star-Bulletin articles at the time, the program was placed on probation and nine individuals -- O'Neil, assistant coach Rick Pitino, athletic director Paul Durham and boosters Wallace Fujiyama, Stuart Ho, Tom Mui, Clarence Chang, Harry Kurasaki and Mike Suzuki were ordered to permanently sever all relations with UH athletics. A tenth person, booster club president Art Woolaway, was ordered to disassociate himself for two years.
Durham fought the charges against him and on Dec. 23, 1977, the NCAA cleared him of any wrongdoing. He remains a staunch supporter of UH sports today. So does Woolaway, who splits his time between the mainland and Hawaii and is an honorary assistant coach of the Rainbows.
Pitino was 2-4 as interim head coach after O'Neil was relieved Feb. 6, 1976. Pitino went on to a hugely successful career as a college and NBA head coach that continues to this day at Louisville. He rarely mentions his time in Hawaii.
Pete Gillen was another assistant for that UH team. He also went on to success and is the head coach at Virginia.
O'Neil also landed on his feet. He owns a sports promotion business in Oregon and has partnered with ESPN, helping the network launch ESPN Home Video.
The 1975-76 team went 11-16. It was Hawaii's first losing season in five years, and the Rainbows didn't finish with a winning record again until 1980-81, when they went 14-13.
On Dec. 16, 1976, players Ed Torres, Wayne Crowe and Steve Borup were declared ineligible by the NCAA because of the rental payment violations. After a review, Borup's eligibility was restored, but Torres and Crowe were forced to sit out the remainder of the 1976-77 season.
Reggie Carter, a promising freshman on the 1975-76 team, transferred to St. John's and went on to a brief NBA career.
Keiter, who was the sports director at KHON at the time, said he doesn't think the scandal knocked down an up-and-coming program.
"They had some good young players, but as I look back I don't really think there was any indication they were on their way to being a powerhouse," he said. "But I can't think of any other scandal that put UH sports in as bad a light."
In Keiter's estimation, there was something worse, though.
"NCAA violations happen to lots of schools for lots of reasons," he said. "But when the football team went 0-12 (in 1998) we all felt that shame. It got to be ridiculous to go out to the game and hope they win. There's not that much shame with NCAA sanctions, other than 'We got caught.' "
But, as Leahey reminded, there is more at stake now with volleyball than there was with basketball 27 years ago.
"The tragedy is it's the school's only men's national title," he said. "If that flag has to come down. ..."
http://starbulletin.com/2003/07/13/sports/index3.html
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Arthur Davies Woolaway
Aug. 21, 2004
Arthur Davies Woolaway, 92, of Dallas, a Maui Agriculture Co. irrigation supervisor, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. field superintendent and Gray Line Hawaii Ltd. president and owner, died in Dallas. He also was a Alexander & Baldwin president's assistant. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Suzanne; children Stanley and Joy; stepchildren Dee Jay Mailer, Lori Halderman and Kristin Dunn; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Celebration of life: 4 p.m. Sunday at Oahu Country Club. Donations suggested to University of Hawaii Foundation Men's Basketball Program, American Cancer Society Research for Punahou School.
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528 U.S. 495 (2000), was a case filed in 1996 by Big Island rancher Harold "Freddy" Rice against the state of Hawaii and argued before the United States Supreme Court. In 2000 the court ruled that the state could not restrict eligibility to vote in elections for the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to persons of Native Hawaiian descent.
Rice was represented by attorney John Goemans, an active opponent of programs, public or private, that benefit Native Hawaiians preferentially. John Roberts (who would later become the Chief Justice of the United States) argued for Ben Cayetano, the governor of Hawaii at the time.
The February 2000 court ruling in Rice v. Cayetano encouraged Hawaiian sovereignty opponents to file a similar lawsuit, Arakaki v. State of Hawai‘i, months later. As the Rice case resulted in non-Hawaiians being allowed to vote in OHA elections, the Arakaki case resulted in non-Hawaiians being allowed to stand as candidates in OHA elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_v._Cayetano
JOHN GOEMANS: CRUSADER FOR A COLOR-BLIND AMERICA
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May 9, 2009
Kamehameha trustee
extensions requested
Terms expiring; report cites program continuity
By Rick Daysog
Advertiser Staff Writer
A court-appointed master for the Kamehameha Schools is recommending a one-year extension for trustee Robert Kihune, whose term ends next month.
In a 117-page report filed with the state Probate Court last month, attorney David Fairbanks also recommended a one-year extension for trustee Diane Plotts and two-year extensions for board members Douglas Ing and Nainoa Thompson.
"The potential for loss of substantial institutional knowledge, wisdom, continuity, momentum and even stability is great, and the threats of an interruption in the present, established path of governance, a less-than-smooth transition ... and interruption of important, newly implemented programs are very real," Fairbanks wrote.
Kihune, a retired Navy vice admiral, will step down June 30 after having served on Kamehameha School's board since 2000.
A Probate Court-appointed trustee screening committee recently named three finalists to replace Kihune. They included state Department of Hawaiian Homes Lands Chairman Micah Kane, state Community Development Authority Executive Director Anthony Ching and former Kamehameha Schools executive and ex-DHHL Chairman Ray Soon.
Deputy Attorney General Hugh Jones, whose office serves as the legal guardian for the estate, had no comment, saying he has not yet completed his review of Fairbanks' recommendations.
A trust spokesman also had no comment but said the estate will file a response to Fairbanks' recommendations with the Probate Court shortly.
Kamehameha Schools, which was established by the 1883 will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, is a nonprofit charitable trust that educates Hawaiian children.
It is one of the nation's largest charities and is Hawai'i's largest private landowner, with more than 360,000 acres.
In addition to extending current trustees' terms, Fairbanks also recommended that future board members receive a 10-year term.
Currently, all five trustees serve five-year terms and are eligible for up to two terms. Thompson's term ends next year, Plotts' tenure ends in 2011 and Ing's term ends 2012.
Trustees earn about $90,000 a year.
Fairbanks said he was satisfied with the progress made by Kamehameha CEO Dee Jay Mailer and her management team but expressed concern about continuity within Kamehameha's boardroom in light of the recent financial challenges faced by the trust.
His report noted that the value of the trust's endowment dropped by 20.4 percent from $9.44 billion on June 30, 2008, to $7.36 billion on Dec. 31, 2008, as a result of the global financial downturn and the national economy.
(Catbird note: Not to mention the greed, corruption and mismanagement of the current Kamehameha Schools’ trustees and management who they now want to EXTEND a couple of years ... so they can lose another $2 or $3 billion???)
"The recent dramatic downturn in the economy, significant losses in investments, the decline in the real estate market with attendant reductions in revenues and lower values, and their potential adverse impact upon the trust's educational programs including outreach programs, make it critical that the transition to an essentially brand new board of trustees be as smooth as possible," he said.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090509/NEWS01/905090325/1001 * * * * *
GOOGLING FOR FAYE WATANABE KURREN + DEE JAY MAILER
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NEW DISCOVERY (04-26-09): Undisclosed conflicts of interest between David Farmer, Sharon Himeno, Bishop Museum, Timothy Johns, Donna Tanoue, Haunani Apoliona, Mark Polivka, Dee Jay Mailer, Nainoa Thompson, etc:
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/images/pdf/Annual_report.pdf
NEW DISCOVERY (01-23-09): More undisclosed conflicts-of-interest between Dee Jay Mailer, The Global Fund, Population Action International, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, etc.:
January 23, 2009
Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy
By MATTHEW LEE and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press
Featured Topics:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
Obama's move, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes.
The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.
"For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us," Obama said in a statement released by the White House. "I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate."
He said the ban was unnecessarily broad and undermined family planning in developing countries.
"In the coming weeks, my administration will initiate a fresh conversation on family planning, working to find areas of common ground to best meet the needs of women and families at home and around the world," the president said.
Obama issued the presidential memorandum rescinding the Bush policy without coverage by the media, late Friday afternoon. The abortion measure is a highly emotional one for many people, and the quiet signing was in contrast to the televised coverage of Obama's announcement Wednesday on ethics rules and Thursday's signing of orders on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and banning torture in the questioning of terror suspects.
His action came one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
The Bush policy had banned U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion as a family planning method.
Critics have long held that the rule unfairly discriminates against the world's poor by denying U.S. aid to groups that may be involved in abortion but also work on other aspects of reproductive health care and HIV/AIDS, leading to the closure of free and low-cost rural clinics.
Supporters of the ban say that the United States still provides millions of dollars in family planning assistance around the world and that the rule prevents anti-abortion taxpayers from backing something they believe is morally wrong.
The ban has been known as the "Mexico City policy" for the city a U.S. delegation first announced it at a U.N. International Conference on Population.
Both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will oversee foreign aid, had promised to do away with the rule during the presidential campaign.
Clinton said Friday evening that for seven years Bush's policy made it more difficult for women around the world to gain access to essential information and health care services.
"Rather than limiting women's ability to receive reproductive health services, we should be supporting programs that help women and their partners make decisions to ensure their health and the health of their families," Clinton said.
In a related move, Obama also said he would restore funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). Both he and Clinton had pledged to reverse a Bush administration determination that assistance to the organization violated U.S. law known as the Kemp-Kasten amendment.
Obama, in his statement, said he looked forward to working with Congress to fulfill that promise: "By resuming funding to UNFPA, the U.S. will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries."
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund, said: "The president's actions send a strong message about his leadership and his desire to support causes that will promote peace and dignity, equality for women and girls and economic development in the poorest regions of the world."
"We are confident that under the new president's direction, the U.S. will resume its leadership in promoting and protecting women's reproductive health and rights worldwide," Obaid said in a statement issued at U.N. headquarters in New York.
The Bush administration had barred U.S. money from the fund, contending that its work in China supported a Chinese family planning policy of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. UNFPA has vehemently denied that it does.
Congress had appropriated $40 million to the UNFPA in the past budget year, but the administration had withheld the money as it had done every year since 2002.
Organizations and lawmakers that had pressed Obama to rescind the Mexico City policy were jubilant.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the move "will help save lives and empower the poorest women and families to improve their quality of life and their future."
"Today's announcement is a very powerful signal to our neighbors around the world that the United States is once again back in the business of good public policy and ideology no longer blunts our ability to save lives around the globe," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Population Action International, an advocacy group, said that the policy had "severely impacted" women's health and that the step "will help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning."
Anti-abortion groups and lawmakers condemned Obama's decision.
"I have long supported the Mexico City Policy and believe this administration's decision to be counter to our nation's interests," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
"Coming just one day after the 36th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, this presidential directive forces taxpayers to subsidize abortions overseas — something no American should be required by government to do," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., called it "morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans to promote abortion around the world."
"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_abortion_ban
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NEW DISCOVERY (11-30-08):
THE BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY
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November 16, 2008
What's in their wallets?
BY RICK DAYSOG, Advertiser Staff Writer
The Hawaii Medical Service Association and The Queen's Medical Center may have lost money last year, but they still managed to give their CEOs a raise.
Last year, HMSA paid Chief Executive Officer Robert Hiam nearly $1.16 million, a $35,000 increase from his 2006 compensation.
Arthur Ushijima, chief executive officer of Queen's Medical and its parent Queen's Healthcare System, made about $1.15 million last year, a $234,741 pay increase from his 2006 compensation.
Hiam and Ushijima were the highest-paid executives in Hawai'i's nonprofit sector.
An Advertiser study of tax filings from more than 20 of the state's largest healthcare organizations, foundations and charities, social services and large educational organizations found that CEO pay continued to rise last year, despite the slowing of the local economy and sluggish investment returns from Wall Street.
salary increases
The study found that 14 of the state's largest and most influential nonprofit organizations gave their top executives a raise while five CEOs took a pay cut.
The findings are largely in line with national trends. A survey by Redmond, Wash.-based executive pay consultants ERI Economic Research Institute found that top executives at nonprofit healthcare, educational and social services organizations around the country are seeing pay increases ranging between 4.2 percent and 4.6 percent this year.
"Their investments may be down and their assets may be declining, but I haven't seen a decrease in (CEO) salaries," said Linda Lampkin, ERI's research director.
To be sure, CEOs in the nonprofit sector make far less money than their for-profit counterparts. An Advertiser study in April found that the average pay for a CEO of a publicly traded company in Hawai'i was about $2.4 million last year, or more than double what HMSA and Queen's paid their top executives.
HMSA and Queen's said their CEO pay is performance based and is competitive with what other similar-sized healthcare companies pay.
HMSA said that Hiam's 2007 compensation — which was set by its board's compensation and human resources committees with input from executive pay consultants Towers Perrin — is less than 0.06 percent of the company's overall revenues.
"The compensation program is designed to be fair, encourage retention of officers for long-term value to the organization," HMSA said in a news release.
HMSA lost $22.6 million last year due to the continued rise in physician and hospital reimbursements. The Queen's Medical Center posted an operating loss of $5.5 million during its 2007 fiscal year, according to Moody's Investors Service.
'excessive pay'
State Sen. Josh Green, D-3rd (Miloli'i, Kailua, Kona), called HMSA's executive pay policies "the worst in the industry."
CEO pay at HMSA has risen steadily over the past decade from $400,000 a year to more than $1 million, while salaries for doctors and nurses have remained flat, contributing to an exodus in the healthcare industry, Green said.
"Excessive pay by the insurance industry is one the primary reasons people don't get healthcare services," Green said.
Hiam and Ushijima were the only Hawai'i nonprofit executives who received more than $1 million last year. But at least five others took home $400,000 or more last year. They included:
Hawaii Pacific Health CEO Charles Sted, who was paid $848,582 last year, a $146,885 drop from his 2006 compensation.
Janet Liang, who was named Hawai'i region president for Kaiser Foundation Health in January 2007, received $661,700 last year.
Shale Stiller, president of the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, who took home $635,657 last year, which was up slightly from his 2006 pay of $624,621.
Kamehameha Schools CEO Dee Jay Mailer, who received $591,677 during the trust's 2007 fiscal year, a $17,447 increase.
John Monahan, CEO of the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau, who was paid $418,406, an $11,032 increase.
Sanjay Mirchandani, who heads a local executive recruitment and career placement company, said salaries offered by local nonprofits for mid-level executives all the way up to CEO has increased during the past several years despite the sluggish local economy.
Mirchandani, owner of Talent Search Group LLC, noted that nonprofits have to offer salaries that are competitive with the for-profit sector to retain their best managers and employees.
Local nonprofits — both large and small — are more likely to downsize less profitable divisions than reduce salaries for their managers, he added.
"Salaries haven't gone down but have remained stable," he said.
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May 17, 2008
SALARIES DISCLOSED
Kamehameha ups pay for executives
By Rick Daysog, Advertiser Staff Writer
In a year it hit several educational and financial milestones, Kamehameha Schools rewarded Chief Executive Officer Dee Jay Mailer with a $17,437 pay increase.
In its annual tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Kamehameha Schools said it paid Mailer $591,677 in salary, benefits and other compensation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007.
That pay package was up from Mailer's year-earlier compensation of $574,230.
The $9.1 billion trust's highest compensated executive was Kirk Belsby, vice president of endowment. He received $689,560 last year, which was up nearly 3.9 percent from his 2006 compensation of $663,724.
Mailer's and Belsby's compensation were on the high end of what large Hawai'i foundations and trusts pay their top executives. But it was well below the $820,000 average that the state's largest healthcare nonprofits pay their CEOs.
Kamehameha Schools spokesman Kekoa Paulsen said the trust's compensation policies are performance based and reflect the credentials and qualifications of its executives.
The estate's endowment grew by a record $1.4 billion in its 2007 fiscal year, paving the way for future expansion of its educational programs.
Founded by the 1884 will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Kamehameha Schools educates children of Hawaiian ancestry.
The trust, the state's largest private landowners and one of the nation's wealthiest charitable trusts, spent a record $250 million on its educational programs last year and reached 35,000 Native Hawaiian students and families last year.
Kamehameha Schools said it expects to spend another $270 million to $277 million this year. And under a longer-term plan, Kamehameha Schools aims to increase the number of students it serves to 55,000 by the year 2018.
According to its tax filing, two dozen Kamehameha Schools employees and trustees received more than $100,000 in compensation last year.
Two former trustees — Henry Peters and Matsuo Takabuki — also receive six-figures payments through a decades-old deferred compensation that was discontinued in the early 1990s.
Peters, who resigned in 1999 after the IRS threatened to revoke the school's tax-exempt status, took home $488,619 in deferred pay last year while Takabuki, who retired in 1993, received $307,806 in deferred pay.
A deferred compensation plan is a tax-savings strategy that allows an executive to postpone the payment of part of his or her annual compensation until a later date, when the executive is in a lower tax bracket.
Among its officers and managers, Kamehameha Schools said it paid Vice President of Strategic Planning Christopher Pating $422,088, Financial Assets Director Elizabeth Hokada $325,864 and Commercial Assets Director Paul Quintiliani $302,111.
Special Projects Director Susan Todani earned $231,756 last year while Michael Chun, headmaster of the Kapalama campus, received $237,888.
Kamehameha's board members Douglas Ing, Nainoa Thompson, Diane Plotts and retired Adm. Robert Kihune earned between $97,500 and $113,500 each last year while Constance Lau, who stepped down from the board during the 2007 fiscal year after she became Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.'s CEO, received $73,500.
Her replacement, First Hawaiian Bank executive Corbett Kalama, earned $27,000. Trustee's pay is set by the state Probate Court.
Others executives listed in the tax filing included:
Neil Hannahs, director of the trust's land assets division, who earned $204,510.
Human Resources Director Richard Lau, who earned $221,109.
Ann Botticelli, the trust's vice president of community relations and communications, who made $182,293 in pay and benefits.
Colleen Wong, vice president of legal services, who earned $257,350.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/May/17/bz/hawaii805170318.html
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NEW DISCOVERY (09-08-08):
September 26, 2000
Untold Tales of the West
by Greg Wongham
There’s a story unfolding throughout the western part of America (Utah, Nevada, California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho) that is not being told and unlike the great sagas of pioneering men and women that founded of the country, this story of the West is being hushed up and here's the reason why.
This story is about the banking company, Bank of the West, and the bank holding company that controls it, BancWest. BancWest was created when Hawaii’s second largest bank, 1st Hawaiian Bank merged with Bank of the West, which is controlled by the French banking firm BanqueWest.
This consolidation of capital between European, Hawaii and the California based Bank of the West has created the 2nd largest bank in Utah. They will have 118 branches in Northern and Central California, 30 branches in Oregon, 9 branches in Washington, 68 branches in Utah and Idaho and 23 branches in New Mexico and 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The public should be concerned about these mega changes in the banking system because of the similarities they bare to the changes in the banking system that caused the failure of the thrift banks throughout the country in the ‘80s. The failure of the thrifts amounted to $ 328 billion of losses and in 1989, the closing of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Company (FSLIC). If the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) falls victim to the myriad of unforeseen banking problems that arose in the ‘80s, then a crisis exist that threatens the principles of the FDIC and exposes the ordinary citizen to financial ruin.
The politically connected role of 1st Hawaiian Bank is integrally linked to Washington and Wall Street. It existed during the tenure of former Secretary of the Treasury, William Simon, who served during the Reagan Administration (1970-1979), and through the tenure of former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, who served during the Clinton Administration (1993-1999), until he resigned in May of 1999. 1st Hawaiian’s CEO, Walter Dodds and former Governor John Waihee, as well as, Hawaii’s present Governor Ben Cayetano were listed as guest who were slept overnight and met with President Clinton at the White house. The mere fact that these people are acquainted is no crime, so, what's the problem?
The problems are based on loan losses that may have been carried on the books of 1st Hawaiian Bank since 1975, when Hawaii’s first thrift bank failed. 1st Hawaiian took over the ailing thrift at the behest of then (D)Governor George Ariyoshi, who was also one of the bank’s directors. From 1975 to 1983, nine of Hawaii’s 20 thrift banks, as well as, Hawaii’s equivalent of the FSLIC, Thrift Guaranty, failed. Hawaii’s Thrift Guaranty was established by the State legislature and contained provisions that mandated that the monies contributed into Thrift Guaranty would come from the 20 State chartered banks.
The monies would be used to insure depositors accounts up to $10,000 per account. In 1985, 1st Hawaiian Bank’s CEO, Walter Dodds was reported to have come to the rescue of the State’s thrifts by loaning the State $32 million, which would eventually be repaid by the taxpayers of Hawaii.
A run on the Hawaii banks ensued, based on the outcry from the public surrounding rumors of insider deals and political corruption linking the Governor and his brother James Ariyoshi. Hawaii’s Democratic Party machine appointed Ms Donna Tanoue as the Hawaii Bank Examiner after he was made the scapegoat for stalling and not taking action sooner. Ms. Tanoue white-washed the situation; and, in the end; no one was held accountable and no one did time. Reports suggested that the Governor had intervened on behalf of his good friend and long time political supporter, developer Norman Inaba. This was similar to the classic question that arose across the country as one thrift after another failed, it ask, “what are the risks when a bank loans the majority of its money to one developer?”
The loan losses that have been carried on the books of 1st Hawaiian as “goodwill” assets came back to haunt the bank in 1998, as the bank attempted to expand and buy-out other banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) standards required banks to set aside cash reserves to cover both old and new loan losses. The bank realized that this might present problems for them and their future plans to expand. That’s when the Hawaii Democratic machine was able to influence President Clinton to appoint Ms. Donna Tanoue to the position of Chairman, of the FDIC. Since then, the FDIC has lessened their standards and a record number of banks have failed. The results of which is that the FDIC has lost money.
The greatest threat to the people of California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado and the other western states that the Bank of the West will call home, lies in the fact that the FDIC is the agency that decides whether or not, one bank has the financial capacity to buy out another bank. If Ms. Tanoue is allowed to cover-up for her politically connected banker friends as she did before; then the public should beware of the financial losses that may accrue if the bank’s losses rise.
Last week, the Japan Travel Bureau, warned Japanese travelers about going to Saipan because of the rising crime including murders, and increasing drug problems. BancWest has begun operations in Saipan. If tourism suffers because of the social unrest, then business suffers and banks lose money. The question that arose as the savings and loans failed was, what is the risk of banks loaning the majority of their money to one developer? The question that the public should ask is, what are the risk of a bank holding company that seeks to do business in countries that are experiencing social and political instability?
The Clinton / Gore link to the Hawaii bank scandal
Before the politically connected Hawaii banks could fulfill their plans to expand they needed support from the 1993, Democratic Party’s Presidential hopeful, William Jefferson Clinton. They used their connections to Asian financial banking sources and the vast fortune of the Hawaii Democratic Party controlled Hawaiian Trusts like a carrot to lure the cash strapped Clinton. It resulted in Clinton’s appointment of Goldman-Sachs, co-director Robert Rubin as Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury. Goldman-Sachs was already involved with Hawaii banking deals that included former Secretary Treasurer, William Simon.
In his position as Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Rubin was successful in changing two laws that had been part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for more than 60-plus years. The first of the laws, the Glass-Steagall Act was implemented after the stock market crash of 1929. Like many of the banking and finance related laws that were passed during this time, the Glass-Steagall Act was meant to protect the public against risk that might jeopardize their money relative to the sales of securities. The law, forbid banks from engaging in the securities business. The government’s newly created securities regulatory agency, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) wanted to deny any chance for banks to co-mingle the monies of depositors with the minimum cash required to raise capital through the sale of stocks and bonds. Don’t be surprised if one day, ads appear in your local papers offering high-yield Chinese government bonds (for dams, bridges, highways, airports, and weapons of mass destruction).
The second law that was changed by Rubin in 1997, was the Bank Holding Company Act. He argued that the laws were archaic and were instituted in a time that didn’t reflect the changes that the American banking industry faced in today’s competitive financial world. The modifications to the Bank Holding Company Act would allow America’s banks to broaden the definition of banking services that would be allowed by the government’s financial regulatory agencies.
Thus, Rubin was successful in opening the door for bank holding companies and their affiliates to engage in stock brokerage activities like underwriting and dealing, as well as, other diversified banking and finance related services [including insurance]. The changes that were made by Rubin, and the lessening of the standards by Ms. Tanoue, made it possible for 1st Hawaiian’s holding company, BancWest to enhance their revenue generating potential despite the old loan losses they absorbed to keep their political insiders out of jail after the Hawaii thrifts failed.
One wonders how you’ll be factored into the equation, after all, its only money ... your money.
This page posted on September 26, 2000
Last updated on October 01, 2004
Greater Things/Clinton Scandals/Riadi/First Hawaiian Bank Link
Dan Inouye and the Hawaiian Banks links: The Ripple Effect
www.kycbs.net/First-Hawaiian-Bank.htm
See also: The Secret Affairs of Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae & Freddie Mac
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NEW DISCOVERY (08-07-08): Undisclosed financial, professional and personal relationships between Greg Dunn, Dee Jay Mailer, Faye Kurren, Hawaii Dental Services, Hawaii Nature Center, OHA, Judge Robert Faris, others:
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.
www.kycbs.net/Hawaii-Nature-Center.htm
www.kycbs.net/Google-Nature-Center.htm
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NEW DISCOVERY (04-24-08): Undisclosed relationships between John Goemans, Mary Lou Woo, James B. Nicholson, David C. Farmer, Steven Guttman, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Paul Alston, Judge Lloyd King, Judge Robert Faris, Judge Kevin Chang, Judge David Ezra, Judge Barry Kurren, Judge Elizabeth Eden Hifo, Dee Jay Mailer, Eric Grant, Jim Dooley, and other witnesses; denial of First Amendment and Seventh Amendment Rights to Defendant and his prior attorney, John Goemans:
April 24, 2008
Kamehameha wants $2 million returned
School points to breach in terms of
confidential settlement paid in 2007
By Jim Dooley, Advertiser Staff Writer
Kamehameha Schools is trying to get back as much as $2 million of the $7 million it paid last year to settle a lawsuit that challenged its admissions policy favoring Hawaiian students, according to legal papers filed in federal court in California.
The papers are contained in new litigation filed after publication of an Advertiser news story in February that revealed that the settlement was $7 million.
The money was paid to a Big Island mother and child in return for their agreement to drop the lawsuit just before the U.S. Supreme Court was to decide whether it would hear an appeal of the case.
The plaintiffs, who have never been publicly identified and are known as Jane and John Doe, alleged in the California case that the schools "threatened" to publicly identify them if they did not place $2 million in an escrow account for possible return to the schools because terms of the confidential settlement had been revealed.
Ken Kuniyuki, a Hawai'i lawyer who now represents the pair, is alleging that David Schulmeister, an attorney for the schools, said that if the schools were forced to file suit over the issue, the names of the Does would become public.
Kuniyuki made the allegation in a sworn declaration filed this month in federal court in Sacramento, seeking a court order barring public identification of the plaintiffs.
Schools attorney Paul Alston denied that Schulmeister threatened to reveal the plaintiff's identities.
"Schulmeister told Kuniyuki that the (Kamehameha Schools/ Bishop Estate) believed the settlement agreement had been breached and that the estate was entitled to damages," Alston said in court papers filed April 14 in Sacramento.
"He further explained that a public lawsuit could make it difficult for the Does' anonymity to be preserved" and suggested that the $2 million be held in escrow while the parties discussed resolution of the dispute short of a lawsuit, according to Alston.
Alston stressed on Tuesday that Kamehameha Schools has not filed a lawsuit or taken any action that would publicly identify the Does.
"Kamehameha Schools is closely scrutinizing how to proceed," he said.
Tuesday night and yesterday, the Kamehameha Schools board of trustees and Chief Executive Dee Jay Mailer sent a mass e-mail to parents and alumni notifying them of the new legal skirmishing in California and alerting them that The Advertiser was preparing a story on the subject.
"A breach of confidentiality has occurred, and an investigation into the line of responsibility is in process. Legal action as appropriate shall follow," the trustees' e-mail said.
"It is aggravating to be drawn into this complicated and unsavory infighting," the trustees' message continued. "However, we will not allow this latest legal maneuver to distract us from our mission."
'Fear for our safety'
Jane and John Doe filed legal papers in Sacramento federal court denying any role in the release of the settlement figure by John Goemans, an attorney who used to represent them but who now is involved in a dispute over compensation for his services in the case.
Their attorney, Kuniyuki, also asked the federal court to issue a restraining order against all parties in the case preventing any attempts to disclose the identities of Jane and John Doe.
He attached an April 2 sworn statement from Jane Doe that said, "both John Doe and I fear for our safety if our identities are made public."
She noted that more than 1,550 reader comments were posted on the Advertiser's Web site following the February story that disclosed the settlement amount.
"Many of them are extremely critical of us. Some include threats of violence against us," she said.
"I have lived in Hawai'i for many years. The negative comments and threats posted to the Honolulu Advertiser's February 8, 2008 article are entirely consistent with my experience with many local residents regarding the admissions policy of the Kamehameha Schools."
If their identities become public, she said, "we are prepared to move and go into hiding."
Last week, following a hearing before U.S. District Judge Frank Damrell Jr., all parties in the federal court case stipulated that they would not disclose the true identities of the Does.
Goemans told The Advertiser in February that he believed the settlement amount should be a matter of public record, given Kamehameha Schools' status as the wealthiest and most influential nonprofit institution in Hawai'i.
Attorney's troubles
In a separate civil case now pending in Sacramento state court, Goemans was sentenced earlier this month to serve eight days in jail and fined $4,000 for violating a court order to keep the settlement amount secret.
Goemans, 73, now living in Florida with his sister, said by telephone, "I have zero money, I have serious health issues, and now I've been ordered to serve an eight-day jail sentence in California in the middle of May. I don't know what's going to happen."
The California state case was filed against Goemans by Eric Grant, a Sacramento attorney who litigated the Does' lawsuit from the time it was first filed in Hawai'i in 2003 through its settlement in May 2007.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Grant was entitled to 40 percent of the $7 million total, or $2.8 million.
He sued Goemans in Superior Court in Sacramento last year to try to settle the outstanding question of how much Goemans should be compensated.
Goemans conceived the civil rights lawsuit against the schools, found the plaintiffs on the Big Island and brought them together with Grant.
Goemans said the only money he has received was a $20,000 loan from Jane Doe but believes he is entitled to as much as 25 percent of the total settlement, or $1.75 million.
According to documents filed in the California state case, Grant became concerned early this year that Goemans intended to reveal the amount of the legal settlement and on Feb. 5 obtained a court order against Goemans blocking any such disclosures.
Three days later, The Advertiser published a news story based on Goemans' statements about the settlement amount.
Goemans said in a sworn statement filed with the California court March 17 that he is "not medically or mentally 100 percent" and had no memory of being informed of the Feb. 5 court order.
"I want to emphasize to the court that it was not my intent to deliberately and knowingly violate the court's order," the statement said.
But he reiterated his belief that Kamehameha Schools, as a tax-exempt organization, should not and cannot keep the terms of the settlement confidential.
After the settlement terms were made public, Grant filed a new federal lawsuit March 28 in Sacramento against Kamehameha Schools and his own clients, Jane and John Doe, asking the court for a ruling that he was not responsible for the disclosure and has no financial liability because of it.
Grant and an attorney who represents him did not return telephone requests for comment.
Alston filed a lengthy legal memo in the case last week questioning the Sacramento court's jurisdiction in the matter since the Does and the schools are in Hawai'i.
Reach Jim Dooley at jdooley@honoluluadvertiser.com.
www.kycbs.net/KS-Seeks-Recovery-4-24-8.mht
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NEW DISCOVERY (04-15-08):
Connecting the dots...
David Farmer...Steven Guttman...Brian Schatz...Barack Obama...Oprah Winfrey...Hillary Clinton...Linda Lingle...John McCain....AIPAC...Punahou School...Kamehameha Schools...Dee Jay Mailer...The Global Fund...Henry Paulson...George W. Bush...Haunani Apoliona...OHA...Daniel Akaka...Dan Inouye...Suzanne Case...Dan Case...Steve Case...Jeffrey Case...Aon...The Nature Conservancy...Greg Dunn...Judith Neustadter Fuqua...etc...ad infinitum...
http://www.midweek.com/content/paina/image_full/2090/
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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.
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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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December 10, 2003
Kamehameha has
new CEO
The schools' new hire wins
praise for her leadership and
her background in health
By Craig Gima, Star-Bulletin
Kamehameha Schools' new chief executive officer was hired for her leadership and healing qualities as well as her understanding of the $6 billion dollar trust's mission, trustees said yesterday.
Dee Jay Mailer is a 1970 Kamehameha graduate and former CEO of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii who started her career as a nurse at Kapiolani and Kaiser Medical Centers. Her two daughters also graduated from Kamehameha.
"We have been through some difficult times," trustee J. Douglas Ing said. "We see Dee Jay as bringing stability to our organization."
Ing said he hopes Mailer's hiring will bring "closure to years of controversy and crisis."
Just last week the school settled a lawsuit and allowed a non-Hawaiian seventh-grader to continue to attend Kamehameha. Another lawsuit challenging the schools native Hawaiian preference admissions policy is likely to be appealed to the 9th Circuit.
In May, former CEO Hamilton McCubbin resigned after the school conducted two investigations into allegations that McCubbin had an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer. McCubbin has denied the allegations.
McCubbin's appointment in January 2000 as the school's first CEO was hailed as a major milestone in the controversy surrounding the removal of former Bishop Estate trustees Henry Peters, Richard "Dickie" Wong, Lokelani Lindsey, Oswald Stender and Gerard Jervis.
Mailer was not at the press conference yesterday. She is finishing work at her current job as chief operating officer of The Global Fund, a public-private multibillion-dollar trust based in Geneva, Switzerland, that raises and distributes money to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
She starts at Kamehameha Schools on Jan. 19.
The Kamehameha Schools is the state's largest private landowner and one of the nation's wealthiest charities. The will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop created the nonprofit trust in 1884. Kamehameha and its programs spent more than $222 million last year to provide educational services to about 16,000 children, mostly of native Hawaiian ancestry.
In a written statement, Mailer cited a desire to give back to Hawaii as a reason for taking the CEO position.
"It's been a dream for me to find a fitting way to return home to my Kamehameha family," Mailer said.
"Pauahi was loving and wise," she said. "And we must now protect her gift and focus on educating Hawaiian children. And once Hawaiian children receive this gift, they must -- and will -- repay it by helping others.
"So, as keiki o ka aina, I am excited to have found my way back to repay the gift given to me."
Ing said Mailer is committed to the Kamehameha's strategic plan to provide more outreach and education to native Hawaiian children.
Trustee Nainoa Thompson said Mailer understands the mission of the schools to provide for Hawaiians living in poverty, "to meet the needs of those that we serve the least."
Mailer received her nursing degree at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1975 and went back to UH to get a master of business administration in 1985. She worked in hospital management at Kaiser Hawaii from 1986 through 1999 and was named CEO in 1995.
She left to become chief administrative officer for Health Net, a California network model health plan serving 2.3 million members.
Ing said Mailer's health background may help with pre-natal education initiatives that have been discussed by the trustees. He said she also may be able to get hospitals involved in giving Kamehameha's students opportunities in health care.
Mailer's salary is not being released. Trustee Chairwoman Constance Lau said Mailer does not have an employment contract. McCubbin earned more than $350,000 a year.
Colleen Wong, who had been acting CEO, will return to her position as Kamehameha's vice-president for legal affairs.
Lau said Mailer emerged as the top candidate after 11 hours of interviews with the trustees.
"Dee Jay is a leader who can lift people up to perform at a level they never realized themselves," said trustee Robert Kihune. "She was a person that could lead the charge and not be the person standing behind with a stick, moving people by beating them up to get them to move forward."
The selection process took seven months and began with nominations from Kamehameha alumni, parents, teachers and community members. Mailer was nominated by both the search firm and alumni, Lau said.
http://starbulletin.com/2003/12/10/news/story1.html
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NEW DISCOVERY (02-23-08): WOMAN AWARDED $9 MILLION DOLLARS IN LAWSUIT AGAINST HEALTH NET FOR FRAUD. CLASS ACTION SUITS TO FOLLOW:
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NEW DISCOVERY (02-09-08): Kamehameha Schools made a “confidential” settlement agreement with the plaintiff in the John Doe vs. Kamehameha Schools case, which my former attorney, John Goemans, Esq., says, according to what he has learned from the IRS, violates the rules for a non-profit charitable trust:
February 9, 2008
$7M
An attorney involved in a challenge to Kamehameha Schools' Hawaiians-only policy reveals the amount of a settlement
By Ken Kobayashi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Kamehameha Schools made the first move to settle a legal challenge to their admissions policy giving preference to native Hawaiians and later agreed to pay $7 million, a lawyer involved in the case said yesterday.
John Goemans, an attorney for an unnamed non-native Hawaiian student who filed a lawsuit contesting the policy, said the charitable trust offered for the first time to talk about an out-of-court settlement last May, just days before the U.S. Supreme Court was to decide whether to hear the case.
Goemans, a former Big Island attorney recuperating in Florida from heart surgery, and Sacramento, Calif., lawyer Eric Grant, the lead attorney, represented the unnamed student and his mother.
"They (the schools) approached Eric and said we wanted to settle and we have to settle by Friday morning," when it was believed the high court was to make a decision about accepting the case, Goemans said.
He said it appeared the high court would accept their appeal of an 8-7 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the policy.
"They (the schools) were worried about losing in the Supreme Court," Goemans said.
Goemans said he did not know how Grant and the Kamehameha Schools arrived at the $7 million figure.
The hotly disputed federal civil rights lawsuit caused a firestorm of controversy among Kamehameha Schools supporters who believed the challenge struck at the more than century-old admissions policy and the heart of the charitable trust's mission to educate children of Hawaiian ancestry.
The confidential settlement was announced on May 14. Those connected with the case repeatedly refused to disclose the terms.
Goemans said he was disclosing the amount because he said he recently learned from Internal Revenue Service officials that Kamehameha Schools, a tax-exempt charitable trust, cannot keep the figure confidential.
"Because exempt organizations operate in the public good, you got to report all your expenses with particularity, and you cannot keep information relative to those expenses confidential," he said. "It's in the public interest to have full disclosure."
Ann Botticelli, Kamehameha Schools spokeswoman, said yesterday the settlement contained a confidentiality clause.
"We intend to honor the terms, and we will not be discussing the settlement or John Goemans' assertions," she said.
Grant said yesterday he had no comment.
Kamehameha Schools, a multibillion-dollar charitable trust and the state's largest private landowner, was established under the 1883 will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. It educates more than 6,700 students at its flagship campus at Kapalama Heights, two other campuses on Maui and the Big Island, and 31 preschools throughout the state.
Senior U.S. District Judge Alan Kay upheld the school's Hawaiians-first policy, but a panel of the appeals court in San Francisco ruled 2-1 that the practice violated federal civil rights laws. That decision triggered statewide protests and marches by school supporters.
Later, a larger appeals court panel voted 8-7 to uphold the policy.
It was an appeal by Grant of that 8-7 ruling that was on the doorsteps of the U.S. Supreme Court when the settlement was announced.
At the time, school officials indicated that the settlement calling for the dismissal of the lawsuit leaves intact the appeals court's 8-7 decision upholding the admissions policy.
But the dismissal does not guarantee that another lawsuit might surface and make its way to the high court, although it would first have to go through the federal trial and appeals courts, where the 8-7 ruling would be considered to be binding on the issue. But even if those who file the new lawsuit lose on those two levels, they could still ask the high court to review the case.
Honolulu attorney David Rosen said he has plaintiffs for a lawsuit to challenge the admissions policy. He said the settlement does not affect his case. Rosen said he expects the suit will be filed this year.
Goemans said Grant received 40 percent, or $2.8 million of the $7 million. Goemans said he is preparing to file his own lawsuit seeking to recover a "reasonable percentage" of the $7 million for his work in the case.
Goemans said he found the unnamed student and arranged for Grant to be the attorney for the student and his mother.
"I put the whole thing together," Goemans said. "But for me there would not have been a $7 million payment."
The student never was admitted to Kamehameha Schools because his case was pending. He has since graduated from high school and had been attending college, Grant said last year.
http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/09/news/story02.html
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February 9, 2008
Amount of settlement
raises critical concern
By Robert Shikina, rshikina@starbulletin.com
Supporters and critics expressed surprise yesterday at the $7 million Kamehameha Schools paid a student to settle a lawsuit disputing its Hawaiians-first admission policy.
One Kamehameha Schools alumnus says disclosure of the settlement with the anonymous, non-Hawaiian student will prompt questions among Hawaiians.
"I'm not happy with $7 million," said Kamehameha Schools alumnus Jan E. Hanohano Dill. "Unfortunately, that's a lot of money, and it's going to create a lot of questions in the Hawaiian community whether it was right or wrong and to continue."
Dill, also a board member of Na Pua a Ke Ali'i Pauahi, a nonprofit group whose members include students, parents, and alumni of Kamehameha Schools, said he continues to support the school's decision.
"I don't know the details, and I think that's something that has to be cleared," he said. "You settle because you want to avoid costs that would be incurred as you go forward."
He added, "I have to believe that they understood that this was something good for the Hawaiian people. ... It will be clear as things unfold whether that was true."
Dill, who is also president of the nonprofit Partners in Development Foundation, said the admissions policy must eventually be addressed and that the settlement avoids this case but does not stop other cases.
Marion Joy, former vice president of Na Pua, called the settlement a "misuse of trust funds."
"The trust is continually going to be challenged," she said. "This is not going to be the last. ... As far as settling for the particular lawsuit, it's not in the best interests of the beneficiaries (of the 1883 will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop)."
Kamehameha Schools declined comment.
Honolulu attorney David Rosen, who has sought potential clients to sue Kamehameha over its admissions policy after the settlement, sent out a statement yesterday that said the $7 million settlement was used to "buy off this case."
He added that the trustees should open a campus on the Leeward Coast of Oahu and possibly Molokai where increased educational opportunities are needed.
H. William Burgess, a retired attorney and founder of Aloha for All, a group opposed to Hawaiian sovereignty, said the settlement raises questions about the proper use of the trust funds.
"Normally, trustees, if they're doubtful about doing something, they ask the court to give them instructions," he said. "Yet in this case, the biggest charitable trust, probably in the nation, instead of welcoming the opportunity to get the highest court in the land to settle it, they pay $7 million to leave it open. And it is very much open."
http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/09/news/story03.html
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From The Catbird Seat website:
The Wise Old Owl asks: How much of the settlement amount came from Kamehameha’s insurance companies, and how much came from the trust funds? How much did Kamehameha Schools (and/or their insurance company) spend for defense costs in this case before they decided to settle? Who is their insurance company? Their insurance broker? Who actually signed the Settlement Agreement?
http://www.kycbs.net/Bishop7.htm
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July 22, 2007
Terry McEnany, MD:
The original Kaiser Permanente Dr. Death
In Kaiser Kills; Kaiser Fraud, Corruption & Cover Ups; Kaiser Retaliation:
The Kaiser Papers has just posted a detailed declaration by whistleblower Dr. William Moores, in the case of past Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Terry McEnany. This guy was so incompetent and dangerous he makes Jayant Patel look like Marcus Welby, MD.
This is one of the most egregious cover ups by Kaiser and The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG — the Kaiser Northern California physician’s group) that we have had the displeasure to read, ever. And that’s really saying something, considering the horrifying stories people send us about Kaiser Permanente every single day....
Everyone who worked with Dr. McEnany knew he was killing people, and many of the doctors refused to refer their patients to him. Still it took a decade for anyone to act on that knowledge, and when a formal review was finally initiated, it was later dropped in favor of allowing McEnany to “quietly resign.” No report was filed with the medical board of California, and a secret deal was negotiated by McEnany’s attorney for “a laudatory letter of recommendation” to be sent to his new employer — Luther Hospital in Eau Claire Wisconsin — where many more of McEnany’s patients were harmed and killed.
For his part in exposing the cover up, whistleblower Dr. William Moores was retaliated against.
The Kaiser Papers has the whole sordid story here.
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Ex-CIA Doctor:
AIDS Is Man-Made Pentagon Conspiracy
by DR. ALAN CANTWELL & DR. SUE ARRIGO
To all persons interested in the man-made origin of AIDS...
I am a physician and AIDS researcher who has authored two books on the man-made origin of HIV/AIDS ("AIDS & THE DOCTORS OF DEATH: AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC" and "QUEER BLOOD: THE SECRET AIDS GENOCIDE PLOT.").
On the eve of the Blue Moon of May 31, 2007, I was sent the most explosive email I have ever received concerning possible insider evidence pertaining to the man-made epidemic of AIDS.
The communication was sent by Sue Arrigo, M.D., who claimed she was a physician licensed in California (G50197). Because her email (attached below) was so mind-blowing, I immediately googled Arrigo and found several entries including a note on one website in which Arrigo claimed to have been kidnapped, raped and threatened with death in 2004 (this was NOT mentioned in her email to me).
In addition, I checked online and verified that she was indeed a licensed CA physician, although her license expired in December, 2006, and her current residence is in Canada.
In her email Dr. Arrigo asked if I would help her get the word out to interested persons. I would ask that anyone who receives this communication to do all they can to spread the word regarding her accusations that AIDS is a man-made disease.
Over the past two decades there have been only a handful of other physicians and health professionals who have had the courage to alert the public to evidence that AIDS is man-made, namely Robert Strecker MD, William Campbell Douglass MD, Eva Snead MD, and Leonard G Horowitz DDS.
In general, their research (books, videos, internet communications) have been ignored by the CDC, the NIH, the AIDS establishment, the major media, etc. -- and merely passed over as "conspiracy theory" and "paranoia."
Dr. Arrigo has a long association with the CIA as an expert on biological warfare, and also has apparent ties to the highest powers (and presidents) in the U.S. government.
Thus, her insider status makes her an extremely valuable witness to the truth about AIDS and its man-made origin.
Please do all you can to confirm or deny the truth of Dr. Arrigo's accusations -- and to publicize her plight -- and to air her plea on behalf of the abominations of secret biological warfare experimentation and use against human beings.
I have attached the google references to "sue arrigo", her email to me in it's entirety, proof of her CA medical credentials, and a website note of her rape and torture.
In truth and justice,
Alan Cantwell M.D.
On May 31, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Sue Arrigo wrote:
Dear Dr. Cantwell,
Thank you for your courage and integrity in speaking the truth.
As an ex- CIA physician with high level access, I wrote a report for DCI Webster in about 1991 arguing for closure of all the US Bio-Warfare Labs. I did that after reviewing the Ft. Detrick and the CIA's Langley Bio-Warfare Labs's research, looking at their own documents.
That review was authorized because Bush, Sr. had sold dangerous Bio-Warfare agents to Hussein, which I ended up having to recover from Iraq. Webster, as a former judge, willing to evaluate the evidence, allowed me to research the field and write a report for him of close to 100 pages and 1000 pages of supporting documents.
Although the focus of my report was why the Bio-Warfare Labs should be closed, the issue of the HIV virus developed by the Ft. Detrick lab formed about 18 pages of my report.
At the time I wrote that report, the vaccine for HIV that had been developed in 6 months of work, had already been used by the Cabal since 1983.
It was a crime against humanity that the virus was unleashed on the world, and it continues to be a crime that the vaccine has been kept secret and for private use only. Meanwhile, the outer research to get to a vaccine is an exercise in how not to arrive at a solution before millions more die.
The initial "hopes" for HIV per its designers was to be able to walk into Africa and take the resources from a ghost continent. They had hyped it as killing everyone there within a year, in their pre-release reports.
The research at the Labs addressed the fastest way to make vaccines to Bio-warfare agents, both in labs, at a front, and impromptu on a battlefield. That was a pressing concern and one that was researched using millions and millions of dollars.
Briefly, the consensus at the time was that
1) Any agent from a sick soldier left in a Waring Blender for 8 hours would be broken down well enough to not be infective in small doses ( ie. less than a 100 germs).
The Labs had made an IgM set of antibodies to sediment out the human HLA antigens by centrifuging it. That allowed the supernatant to be used as a vaccine with little serum sickness problems.
A physician in a war zone equipped with a Waring Blender, a blood specimen centrifuge, and a vial of the IgM could make a fast "fresh" vaccine and start inoculating soldiers.
The labs tested that using a variety of agents and common cold agents. It was only if one wanted to store the vaccine in vials that one got into the problem of denaturing the proteins of the agent due to heat, chemicals,etc. That was where most of the problems of loss of effectiveness crop up.
2) The Labs found that causing a 1cm by 1cm abrasion until one got lymph and applying a drop of the "fresh vaccine" and a band aid, worked almost as well as an injection. The abrasion could be caused by three fast firm strokes of very fine sand paper over a template with a square of skin bulging through it.
This method had much less serum sickness problem. The major problem was occasion keloid and scar formation and superficial infections.
3) The Labs also showed that it was possible to make a crude live vaccine as an emergency directly on the battlefield. The principle was that infection occurs when the body's defenses are overwhelmed but that the body can usually fend off 10 to 50 organisms even of Bio-warfare agents. It was a simple dilution to get the agent into the right ballpark, starting with a secretion of a sick person.
Then a drop of that dilute live agent would be placed on an abrasion. That was also tested during war games with colds etc. The diluted material can't be stored for longer than an hour due to the risk of multiplying the agent.
It was assumed that in the field it would not be known whether the agent was a virus or a bacteria. A bacteria that divided every 20 minutes could be 8 fold in quantity after an hour and risk causing the infection one was attempting to prevent. Of course, such a live agent could be extremely dangerous and except in an extreme emergency would not be used.
4) The issue of how to quickly sterilize a make-shift vaccine was also addressed in the research. The best method was to dry the agent, if time permitted. Second best was to preserve the agent in Vodka (40%), not gin, etc., and then to dilute it down to less than 2% alcohol before applying it to the abrasion.
That means that a simple vaccine for HIV can be made by virtually anyone in the world in a short period of time, though it would likely need to be repeated periodically to get and keep the titers up. But repeating it is a good idea anyway as that helps address the mutation problem. So, suppose one took 1 cc of secretions from each of 10 HIV patients in an area (without fungal infections preferably) and mixed them together to have a range of HIV agents. Then one could add 250 cc of Vodka and let it sit a week. Then one could remove a cc of that and add 20 cc of clean water to get a less than 2% alcohol solution. A drop of that could be applied to an abrasion. That, I believe, would give you about 60% protection.
Repeating that at intervals of about 2 weeks to a month for 6 months and using new HIV secretions every 6 to 12 months, I think would give one fairly good protection in a person with a normal immune system to start with. Of course, that is a crude method and should be tested for efficacy etc. But it is simple enough to test on sex workers, if they were willing to volunteer.
They are at such high risk that the likely benefits almost certainly outweigh the risks. The chief risk would still be sensitization with human HLA proteins. The beauty of using abrasions is that one can wash the vaccine off as soon as any untoward reaction is noticed.
If you know of people doing HIV research who are not controlled by the US govt, could you please pass this information on to them?
It would be good to get it out to those who could investigate this information with the intention of saving lives with it. Bio- warfare research is immoral and illegal. Unfortunately the US govt is accelerating that research and production of secret private vaccines.
Sincerely, Sue Arrigo, MD
(the below is from: http://www.alternet.org/rights/27771/ )
An American Already Tortured By Cheney's Team in the US
Posted by: kunzangwangmo on Nov 11, 2005 10:16 PM
As a coerced CIA asset, I was asked by Cheney in Aug. 2004 to frame Iran as developing nuclear weapons. Because Cheney was afraid of CIA leaks, he gave me the assignment at a Chinese restaurant in DC after hours. It was not the first meeting that I have ever had privately with him as I acted as a negotiator between him and Tenet.
Within the CIA I had been an outspoken critic of US wars of aggression, its nuclear first strike plans, and its breaking of nuclear arms control treaties. I spent most of my life as an operative risking my life as a remote viewing spy monitoring and recovering lost WMD.
I am a doctor and the assignment Cheney gave me was to go to Iran as a physician. Once in Iran, a camera crew would be filming when an Iranian agent would rush in to say that he knew a secret bunker where the Iranian govt. was developing nuclear weapons.
Cheney admitted that the rest of the filming would occur in Hollywood with a mock up of said lab. Clearly, this was an immoral assignment. There was no way that I was going to have the blood of innocent Iranian women and children on my hands, so I refused. When I did so, Cheney threatened the life of my mother. Since my mother had recently told me she would rather die than have me be emotionally blackmailed in this way, I held to my no.
During the course of our about 40 minute talk, one of his secret service officers interrupted us twice. The next week when I was kidnapped in Virginia, raped and tortured for 4 days, I recognized the voice of that officer as one of the rapists.
It is an outrage that Cheney is advocating torture. He has already shown by his actions, that he will stop at nothing, not even the torture of American born CIA personnel in order to get his way. He has a clear conflict of interest in making money off these wars.
Are we, as Americans, going to torture people just so that corrupt officials can line their pockets with oil and war profiteering revenues?
Please write your congresspersons to prevent others being tortured as I was. Cheney and Bush should be impeached for lying to force us into war. We are not winning the war on terrorism, torture is terrorism as anyone who had been through it knows. I was raped and subjected to three mock executions, when will this US reign of terror end?
Sincerely,
Sue Arrigo, MD
California medical license G 50197
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April 27, 2007
Senior Official Linked to
Escort Service Resigns
ABC NEWS
Brian Ross and Justin Rood Report:
Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.
Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.
A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for "personal reasons."
On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," [ala Bill Clinton’s definition???] and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages.
Tobias' private cell number was among thousands of numbers listed in the telephone records provided to ABC News by Jeane Palfrey, the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," who is facing the federal charges. In an interview to be broadcast on "20/20" next Friday, Palfrey says she intends to call Tobias and a number of her other prominent D.C. clients to testify at her trial.
"I'm sure as heck not going to be going to federal prison for one day, let alone, four to eight years, because I'm shy about bringing in the deputy secretary of whatever," Palfrey told ABC News.
Palfrey maintains she ran a sexual fantasy business that was legal and that if any of the women who were working for her had sex, they did so in violation of her rules and without her knowledge. She says there are a number of other prominent Washington, D.C. men who will be on her witness list. "I'll bring every last one of them in if necessary," Palfrey said.
As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Tobias was criticized by some for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.
In a 2004 interview, Tobias explained his approach as "A and B and C. . . Abstinence works. 'Be faithful' works. Condoms work. They all have a role. But it's not a multiple choice, where there is only one answer."
As a top official overseeing global AIDS funding to other countries, Tobias was responsible for enforcing a U.S. policy, enacted during the Bush administration, that requires recipients to swear they oppose prostitution and sex trafficking. USAID adopted a similar policy in 2004.
At an April 18 speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised Tobias' work. "Randy Tobias has indeed had many roles in his life, but none more important than the roles he's played in government, where he has been someone who has been most involved in organizing America's compassion to the world."
A biography of Tobias was removed from the USAID Web site, but an archived version shows that before joining the State Department, Tobias had been CEO of drug manufacturer Eli Lilly Co. and AT&T Communications, and served on the board of trustees for Duke University, including three years as its chair.
In 2003, he co-wrote a book on leadership lessons with his son, Todd, entitled, "Put the Moose on the Table." Indiana University, whose publishing arm produced the volume, is also home to the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence.
Along with his wife, Marianne, Tobias donated over $100,000 to Republican candidates and political committees, according to the campaign finance Web site http://www.opensecrets.org.
Tobias is the second prominent man to be identified as a customer of the Palfrey’s "sexual fantasy service." Two weeks ago, Palfrey alleged that military strategist Harlan K. Ullman, creator of the "shock and awe" combat theory and now a scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was also a customer. Ullman has said that the claim was "beneath the dignity of comment."
Palfrey is expected to appear in court on Monday, to request permission to replace her criminal defense attorney, currently a federal public defender.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/senior_official.html
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For Immediate Release:
29 September 2003
AIDS ORGANIZATIONS RAISE GRAVE CONCERNS IN ANTICIPATION OF EX-PHARMA CEO'S CONFIRMATION AS HEAD OF BUSH AIDS PLAN
A coalition of AIDS advocacy organizations including Health GAP, Global AIDS Alliance, Africa Action, Student Global AIDS Campaign and the Washington Office on Africa, demanded answers today to critical questions regarding the confirmation of Randall ("Randy") Tobias as head of the Bush global AIDS program. Tobias, who will begin confirmation hearings September 30 in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the recently retired CEO of U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and influential Republican campaign donor.
Recent battles at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over providing access to affordable generic medicines make clear that such access is not in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry--an industry that held the allegiance of Tobias for many years.
"It would be one thing if Tobias could boast experience in the field of AIDS or public health," said Rene Shen of Student global AIDS Campaign. "But being poorly qualified and having questionable priorities on access to affordable life-saving drugs is bad medicine for people living with AIDS," continued Shen. "Bush is already breaking his promise to uphold the Doha Declaration by continuing to obstruct poor countries' access to affordable generics. Will Tobias break that promise too?"
Announcements of the president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (EPAR) have indicated that the plan calls for use of affordable generic medicines, utilizing triple combinations of antiviral drugs available at $300 or less per person per year. This price is currently only available through generic manufacturers. Even with the price reductions offered by branded pharmaceuticals to some sectors of some developing countries, no combinations of brand name antiretrovirals approach the $300 target.
The coalition of advocates closely scrutinizing Tobias's confirmation is reluctant to believe that the retired drug company executive will make good on this promise. "The 40 million people with AIDS facing death without access to affordable treatment need experienced public health leadership to direct this program," said Salih Booker of Africa Action. "Tobias has some tough questions to answer," continued Booker.
"It is highly problematic that the person chosen by Bush to lead the fight against AIDS on behalf of the U.S. brings up concerns of experience and independence before even being put into the position, and it is perfectly reasonable to object to this nomination. There must be an adequate firewall between important public health policy decisions like this one, and the conflicting commercial interests of political appointees."
The coalition also criticized the fact that the White House has not released clinical or programmatic details about the Bush AIDS Plan, which is already nearly one year old. "More than one and a half million people have died of AIDS since Bush's announcement," said Brook Baker of Health GAP. "The clock is ticking--a detailed plan setting out how the White House expects to achieve the clinical goals of its AIDS program is long overdue."
Bush's five-year AIDS plan has also come under attack for sidestepping the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), a multilateral program that is already operating and functional. The Global Fund is facing an immediate fiscal shortfall of $3 billion, because the U.S. and other donors have not committed their fair share.
"The lack of genuine leadership by Bush in stating AIDS as an 'emergency,' but then refusing to adequately fund the sole existing mechanism that could save millions of lives is indefensible," said Paul Zeitz of Global AIDS Alliance. "Bush's White House argues that poor countries cannot absorb the $3 billion promised in the global AIDS bill he signed. That is simply a lie. To show good faith, Bush and the head of his AIDS program should express their will by fully funding the U.S. share for the Global Fund at not less than $1 billion for 2004."
Despite a recent agreement made at the WTO, Bush's bilateral trade agenda has focused on increasing patent rights for drug companies, even in poor countries, where patent monopolies result in higher cost and decreased access. The emerging free trade agreement between the U.S. and the Southern African Customs Union, for example, would inhibit access to low cost generic versions of important patented medicines.
In Nigeria and Uganda the U.S. has pressured local officials to enact national patent policies that exceed the strict rules of the WTO and would restrict countries' rights to break patent monopolies to reduce medicines cost. Upcoming talks in Miami in November around the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) represents another example of the ongoing trade interests of Bush and the pharmaceutical industry....
http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/politics/ngos09292003.html
August 7, 2006
Thais Protest Patent Bid for AIDS Drug
By Tanny Chia
BANGKOK (Reuters) Aug 07 - Hundreds of Thais living with HIV/AIDS rallied against drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on Monday to protest a patent application they say would raise the cost of a key life-saving drug.
Waving placards and shouting slogans outside GSK's office in Bangkok, the demonstrators demanded the company withdraw a nine-year-old patent bid for its anti-retroviral Combid, which is made in a generic version by Thailand's state drug company.
The patent would force the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) to stop producing its version, Zilarvir, which costs about 1,500 baht ($40) per month, activists said.
Combid sells in Thailand at almost six times the price of the generic version, and would likely rise further if there was no competition, said Wirat Purahong, chairman of the Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
"This international drug company is being selfish, greedy and unethical. It doesn't care about the health and welfare of the people," Wirat told Reuters.
Some 80,000 people with HIV/AIDS are receiving anti-retroviral drugs under a programme expanded last year and covered by Thailand's public healthcare plan.
Granting the patent would drive up drug costs and threaten the government's ambitious treatment programme, said Achara Ekasengsri, GPO's deputy chief of research and development.
"We disagree with the patent because there is no new discovery or invention," she said of Combid, which combines two existing drugs, lamivudine and zidovudine, and is also known as Combivir.
London-based GSK, which is not dropping its patent request, said Thailand could negotiate for a voluntary licence to produce a generic version of the drug.
GSK also offered preferential pricing for middle-income nations such as Thailand, said GSK spokeswoman Alice Hunt.
"If somebody legitimately wants to manufacture and sell Combivir, all they need to do is pick up a phone and talk to us about getting a voluntary licence," she said.
In 2000, an alliance of HIV/AIDS groups, lawyers, academics and pharmacists asked the Department of Intellectual Property to reject GSK's request, arguing that Combid was not a new entity but just a combination of two widely-used drugs.
The challenge was dismissed in 2005 but an appeal is pending.
The government has not said when it will make a decision on the patent request.
Thai activists say they will take their fight to the International AIDS Conference in Toronto later this month.
During the 2004 AIDS conference in Bangkok, protesters besieged the company's booth and accused GSK of not doing enough to fight the pandemic in the developing world.
October 17, 2005
AIDS Drug Maker to Pay $700M in Settlement
- By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Swiss manufacturer of the AIDS treatment drug Serostim has agreed to pay more than $700 million to settle allegations that it offered kickbacks to doctors to write prescriptions to boost sagging sales, government and company officials said Monday.
The Justice Department settlement with Serono Laboratories of Switzerland was to be announced later Monday by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly in advance of the announcement.
The settlement would be the second largest for prescription drug fraud, according to Patrick Burns, spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, a group which tracks whistleblower claims under the federal False Claims Act.
Serostim, which contains the human growth hormone Somatropin, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1996 to treat AIDS wasting, an often-fatal condition involving severe weight loss.
At about the time the FDA approved the drug, protease inhibitor drugs came on the market. Those drugs, when used in combinations or "cocktails," sharply curtailed the AIDS virus in patients, making them less prone to AIDS wasting.
Four former Serono executives were indicted in April, charged with offering the kickbacks to doctors.
Monday's settlement is the latest in a series of whistleblower claims that have resulted in more than $3 billion in payments from drug companies in recent years.
Last month, GlaxoSmithKline PLC said it will pay $150 million to settle claims it overcharged the government for two anti-nausea drugs.
Federal and state officials are looking into 150 price and marketing fraud cases involving more than 500 drugs, according to Peter Keisler, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Division.
August 31, 2005
Uganda Appoints Panel To Investigate Global Fund's Allegations of Grant Mismanagement; Outside Auditors To Manage Funds
The Ugandan government has appointed a four-member commission to investigate alleged mismanagement that prompted the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to temporarily suspend its grants to the country, Uganda's Monitor reports (Walulya/Mulondo, Monitor, 8/30).
The Global Fund last week announced its suspension of five grants worth more than $200 million after an audit of one of the grants by PricewaterhouseCoopers found evidence of "serious mismanagement" by the Ugandan Ministry of Health's Project Management Unit, which was established to implement the grants.
The audit showed discrepancies in exchange rates when grants in dollar amounts were converted into Ugandan shillings, according to news reports. In addition, funds were not properly accounted for and invoices or receipts were missing for some expenditures.
The audit found no firm evidence of corruption or fraud, and the Global Fund said it has not yet begun a full investigation, which will require a review of bank records and other personal information.
The fund has requested that the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, which serves as the principal recipient for the five grants, implement a new method of effectively managing the grants by the end of October (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 8/26).
The government also has announced plans to have the international accounting and auditing firm Ernst & Young temporarily take over management of the country's AIDS funding from the PMU (BBC News, 8/31).
Ernst & Young primarily will be in charge of the procurement of drugs and condoms, Mike Mukula, the state minister of health, said. He added that Global Fund officials have said they "still have a lot of confidence and expect to lift the suspension very soon" (Nyakairu, Reuters, 8/30).
MPs Question Need for Commission
Some Ugandan members of Parliament expressed skepticism about the need for the commission, saying there is nothing to investigate. "Why do you appoint a commission of inquiry yet a professionally qualified firm has revealed the information?" MP Aggrey Awori asked, adding, "It is clear that the money was misused." MP Martin Wandera said that the commission "will only serve public relations value" (Monitor, 8/30).
Suspension Implications
Officials from the health ministry on Monday met to discuss the implications of the Global Fund suspension. According to an internal memo from the ministry, the country's supply of antiretroviral drugs for children has run out, medication for TB is expected to be depleted by September and medication to treat malaria among children younger than age five is expected to run out in the next two months.
In addition, a government program to procure two million insecticide-treated bednets to distribute at no cost to children, pregnant women and displaced persons has been affected by the suspension, and a program to buy three hundred motorcycles to help widen the community-based management of TB also could be put on hold, according to news reports (Xinhua News Agency, 8/30).
August 3, 2005
Global Fund Asks Outside Investigator to Probe Mismanagement Allegations Brought by Two Employees
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has asked the World Health Organization's Office of Internal Oversight Services to investigate charges of mismanagement within the fund, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The accusations were brought last month by two Global Fund employees and include allegations that officials awarded contracts without adhering to established procedures, hired a mid-level manager without proper screening and allowed the wife of Global Fund Executive Director Richard Feachem to work on the organization's procurement system (Phillips, Wall Street Journal, 8/3).
In a memo to the Global Fund board of directors, Feachem said he is calling for the investigation to "ensure that in [the] future there are very clear guidelines as to due process and accountability."
He also said he has requested that Global Fund Deputy Executive Director Helen Evans look into the separate issues of "staff turnover and organizational culture" (Jack, Financial Times, 8/2).
Jon Liden, a Global Fund spokesperson, said that the fund's managers believe the accusations are "overblown" and that no charges of corruption have been brought. He said officials frequently use single-source contracts to accelerate the delivery of money to developing countries.
In addition, Liden said that Neelam Sekhri, Feachem's wife and a health specialist, offered "unpaid, voluntary advice" on a computerized procurement system but stopped working on the system after questions were raised about her involvement in the organization run by her husband (Wall Street Journal, 8/3).
Feachem on Tuesday said, "These are strictly internal, routine matters," adding, "Certain allegations have been made which concern processes and do not in any way imply fraud" (Financial Times, 8/2)....
www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv.cfm
May 17, 2006
Kamehameha Schools CEO earns $474,240
By Rick Daysog, Advertiser Staff Writer
Kamehameha Schools paid Chief Executive Officer Dee Jay Mailer $474,240 during its 2005 fiscal year but that was only enough to make her the trust's second highest paid executive.
In its annual tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service this week, Kamehameha Schools said its top paid executive was Endowment Vice President Kirk Belsby, who earned $722,413 for the year ended June 30, 2005.
The Kamehameha Schools — Hawai'i's largest private landowner — is a tax-exempt charity set up by the 1884 will of Princess Berni
The trust operates schools for more than 6,000 preschool to high school students with the proceeds from its $6.1 billion endowment.
Belsby's 2005 compensation — which included $603,281 in base pay, $100,450 in expense and allowances and $18,682 in contributions to his employee benefit plan — was up 37.9 percent from the $523,856 he earned in fiscal year 2004.
Belsby's pay is less than half of the $1.7 million average compensation paid to the top executives at Hawai'i's largest publicly traded, for-profit corporations last year.
It also is comparable to the $500,000 to $700,000 range paid to the CEOs of Hawai'i's largest nonprofit healthcare companies such as The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Pacific Health and the Hawaii Medical Service Association.
Kekoa Paulsen, Kamehameha Schools spokesman, said much of Belsby's compensation is incentive based and is determined by the performance of the trust's finances.
During its 2005 fiscal year, Kamehameha Schools generated $837.2 million in total revenue, or slightly less than the record $838.8 million in fiscal 2004.
According to Kamehameha's tax filings, Mailer's pay rose sharply from her 2004 compensation of $204,403. But the comparison is skewed by the fact that Mailer was named chief executive officer in the middle of the 2004 fiscal year.
Mailer's 2005 pay package is slightly less than the $493,586 in salary that the trust paid its former CEO Hamilton McCubbin in its 2003 fiscal year.
The estate's annual filing with the IRS also disclosed pay figures for other top executives and educators, including:
Michael Loo, the trust's finance and administrative vice president: $245,306
Legal Vice President Colleen Wong: $241,370
Kamehameha School's Maui campus headmaster Daniel Chamberlain: $233,652
Michael Chun, headmaster of the trust's Kapalama Heights campus: $222,928
Big Island headmaster Stanley Fortuna: $222,159
Former Community Relations Vice President Raynard Soon: $200,714.
Trustee Nainoa Thompson earned $107,000 while fellow board member Diane Plotts received $110,500.
Trustees Douglas Ing and Constance Lau were paid $99,000 each while Robert Kihune earned $94,500. Trustee pay is based in part on the number of hours worked.
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March 1, 2004
Just like family: Dee Jay Mailer, Kamehameha Schools' New CEO and a former labor and delivery nurse, wants to heal some old wounds, forge new bonds and move on.
By Choo, David K.Publication: Hawaii Business
Right before she was to start her freshman year at Punahou, Dee Jay Mailer announced to her parents that she would like to transfer to Kamehameha Schools.
Her slightly puzzled mother sat her down and asked why she wanted to leave Punahou. After all, the young Dee Jay seemed to be thriving at Punahou, the elite prep school, where she was on full scholarship. "This is very important decision," said her mother patiently.
"I know, but I think it's time to move on," said Dee Jay. "I want to go to Kamehameha. I want to be with family."
Her cousins had attended the school, so it would be a family reunion of sorts. Mailer had been to a number of school functions with her relatives and couldn't shake the pleasant feelings that came over her every time she stepped loot on the Kapalama campus. It was something new and familiar all at once. It had something to do with connecting with her Hawaiian roots, for sure, but it was something more.
In January, Mailer was named chief executive officer of the Kamehameha Schools, overseeing three campuses and a nearly $6 billion trust. She steps into a position that is arguably the state's highest-profile job outside of the governor's mansion, with challenges that extend from Wall Street to School Street and many places in between.
Kamehameha Schools and the world around it are much more complicated places than when she was a student, but Mailer says that the feeling of family and common purpose is as strong as ever and may be one of the keys to the school's continued success.
"I have been up to the school four different times and the teachers and administrators tell me the same thing," said Mailer, shortly after starting her new job in January. "They are there to teach and support the children. It's as simple as that. It's a common voice, and it's grown stronger since I was in high school."
Mailer says that it was this network of support, from friends, teachers, counselors and administrators, which nurtured her throughout school and inspired her in her career.
After graduating from Kamehameha in 1970, Mailer enrolled at the University, of Hawaii and studied nursing, following in the footsteps of an aunt, who was one of her childhood mentors. After receiving her B.S., Mailer went to work as a labor and delivery nurse at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children for four years, before another mentor, the director of nursing, suggested that Mailer earn a Master's in Business Administration. For two years, Mailer worked full-time, went to school full-time and raised two very young daughters.
With master's degree in hand, Mailer applied for and got a position as assistant manager of Kaiser Permanente's Honolulu clinic. Over the next 12 years, Mailer held various management positions throughout Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, before leaving the healthcare organization as its CEO in 1999. She went on to serve as the chief administrative and operating officer of Health Net Inc., a health insurance program serving 2 million members, in California for several years. When she was named Kamehameha Schools' new head woman, she was the chief operating officer and executive director of The Global Fund, a private Swiss foundation which fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.
Mailer says that she can draw several parallels between her job today and her four years as CEO of Kaiser, when she had to balance quality care with cost pressures and other organizational hurdles.
"In Kaiser's case, we needed to care for Hawaii's people like family," said Mailer. "At Kamehameha, it is no different. We've been hit with challenges, and I'm sure there will be many more. But it is our job to get through them. Pauahi does not want us to spend our energy and resources on controversy. Under my leadership, we will continue to move forward and heal. But more importantly, we will never lose sight of our mission to educate and support the children."
Dee Jay Mailer
AGE: 51
EDUCATION: MBA, BS, Nursing, University of Hawaii at Manoa; 1970 graduate of Kamehameha Schools
WORK EXPERIENCE: chief operating officer and executive director of The Global Fund; chief administrative operating officer of Health Net, Inc.; chief executive officer, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii; was a labor and delivery nurse for six years before entering management
FAMILY: married and the mother of two daughters, Renee, 25 (KS '96); Brandy, 23 (KS '98) both living in the Mainland
HOBBIES: "Every moment that I am not working I spend with my family and friends, and they, therefore, are my hobby."
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April 13, 1992
Why the Right Loves the U.N.
Ian Williams, The Nation
The right has spent many years attacking the United Nations. Indeed, for years the Heritage Foundation had a special section with no other task than to calumniate the U.N. and all its works. Now, in the Bushian new world order, conservatives see hiterto hidden attractions in the organization....
Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's ratifications of Bush's patronage appointment of the man Pennsylvania disappointed was followed by Boutros-Ghali's appointment of Joseph Verner Reed to an unspecified portfolio.
Once described as a "14-carat nitwit" by Senator Thomas Eagleton, Reed, a former Chase Manhattan vice president, was made Ambassaor to Morocco by Reagan in 1981, and now has the job of organizing the U.N.'s fiftieth-anniversary celebrations.
Reed has also joined Burton Pines on the executive committee of the Institute of East-West Dynamics, which in its own way encapsulates the new relationship between the U.N. and Washington. A nonprofit organization set up to promote profit, it offers training in free-market economic principles to the "economies in transition" in Eastern Europe. The institute seems to have secured an initial $250,000 grant from the United Nations Development Program, having been referred there by the State Department....
John Bolton, an Ed Meese disciple who led the campaign to withdraw U.S. membership from UNESCO, had no problem with the request. He approached U.N.D.P. in late November and suggested that it pay the institute the $2 million. A week later he congratulated U.N.D.P.'s administrator William Draper 3d for making the "initial contribution" of $250,000 to the institute, adding that "I trust UNDP will make the funds available to the Institute as soon as possible so as not to delay the implementation of this worthwhile endeavor."
Draper is a clubbable conservative, a friend of George Bush and generally well regarded in the U.N.D.P. Both he and U.N.D.P. were put in a difficult positions by this letter. U.N.D.P. is funded by voluntary contributions, and 10 percent of its cash comes from the U.S. government -- through Bolton. A U.N.D.P. spokesperson confirmed that the request had been made, but said that the quarter-million "for management training programs in Eastern Europe had not yet been approved. It is going through the regular appraisal process."
That institute director Reed makes no secret of his desire to inherit Draper's job as head of the U.N.D.P. may help lubricate the appraisal machinery....
http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/williams.htm
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Dee Jay Mailer is expected to testify as to the facts and circumstances of Harmon’s “letter-writing campaign,” and her relationships with Judge Barry Kurren; Faye Watanabe Kurren; First Hawaiian Bank; BNP Paribas; Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Linda Lingle; Kirk Belsby; Bill Frist; Randall L Tobias, The Global Fund; Barack Obama; Joshua Gotbaum; James T. Paul; The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan; Ellen Godbey Carson; Clyde Mark, P&C Insurance Company; Wally Chin; Hamilton McCubbin; Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Jaffe, Moore & Hetherington; William S. Richardson; Colleen Wong; Louanne Kam; Sabrina Toma; Maryanne Inouye; Gilbert Tam; Robert K.U. Kihune; P&C Insurance; Kenneth Hipp, Marr Hipp Jones & Pepper; Jeffrey Sia; Susan Tius; Guido Giacometti; J.P. Schmidt; Patty Woolaway, Art Woolaway; Gray Line Hawaii; C. Brewer & Co.; Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co.; Elizabeth K. Lindsey Buyers, Alexander & Baldwin; Judith Neustadter Fuqua; Steven Guttman, Esq.; Alan J. Ma, Esq.; Rocco Sansone, Marsh & McLennan; Jeffrey Case, Aon Risk Managers; Chubb Group; AIG; Peter Savio; Maui Land & Pineapple Co.; Walter A. Dods, Jr.; David C. Cole; The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii; Stanley Hong; Michael Nauyokas; Neil Hannahs; Gregory D. Dunn; The Hawaii Nature Center; Bert Kobayashi; Chris Yuen; Ed Case; The Starr Foundation; Micah Kane, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL); Bishop Museum; Mark Polivka; Fred Kraus; Stanford Carr; Everett Dowling; Maui County Council; Maui Planning and Land Use Committee; Hawaii Land Use Commission, Randall R. Tobias, David Carey, Outrigger Enterprises, Paul Alston, David Farmer, Joseph Verner Reed, Jr.; Merck Pharmaceutical Co., The Trevor Project, Randy Stone, Jeff Stone, Mari Stone Wong, Richard Wong, Gary Rodrigues, Pacific Group Medical Association, Robert Wrede, and others to be named upon discovery.
Ms. Mailer is also expected to testify as to her role in the review and processing of Harmon’s various liability claims against the interim and present trustees, CEO Hamilton McCubbin, herself, various for-profit subsidiaries, their directors, officers, and employees, and sub-contractors for these entities, including Marsh & McLennan, Inc., Aon, and other insurance agents, brokers and companies.
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