James B. Nicholson, Office of the U.S. Trustee vs. Harmon

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRUSTEE

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

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

CV05-00030 DAE/KSC

United States District Court, District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

JEFF WATANABE

Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji
999 Bishop St., 22^nd & 23^rd Floors
Honolulu, HI 96813

Fax: 808-544-8399

Email: jwatanabe@wik.com

Partner and principal in the law firm of Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji; Deputy Attorney General for the State of Hawaii, assigned to the Antitrust Division, 1968-69, and to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, 1969-70; Chairman, Hawaiian Electric Industries; Trustee of Punahou School; Director of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc, American Savings Bank, F.S.B., First Insurance Company of Hawaii, Grace Pacific Corp., LOEA Corp., Matson Navigation Company, Inc., Trex Enterprises Corp., and MidWeek Printing/Oahu Publications, Inc., which owns the Star-Bulletin; Member Advisory Board, Oceanic Cablevision, a subsidiary of AOL Time-Warner; Trustee, AOL Sesame Workshop; The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii; Member, Board of Governors, Hawaii Community Foundation; Chair, The Conseulo Zobel Alger Foundation.

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From Greater Good Radio:

Jeff Watanabe is a tireless business and community leader, being member of the board of more than a dozen for-profit and non-profit organizations. He is a founding partner of Watanabe Ing & Komeiji LLC, which he established with colleagues in 1971. At this time, Watanabe Ing. and Komeiji LLC was the youngest of its kind which went head-to-head with the five biggest law firms in the state.

Jeff is also the chairman of the Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation, which works with hundreds of other non-profit organizations in Hawaii and the Philippines.

Greater Good Radio brings back Jeff Watanabe, a man of considerable experience in social entrepreneurship. In this interview, he talks about his time in Washington working under Senator Daniel Inouye, and how the senior politician had influenced him in to going back to Hawaii and give back to the very people who brought him to his current standing....

http://www.greatergoodradio.com/?p=327

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NEW DISCOVERY (11-30-08):

THE BEST GOVERNMENT MONEY CAN BUY

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NEW DISCOVERY (11-24-08): New Exhibit: “EQ 2048 - Deposition of Lokelani Lindsey taken on November 4 & 9, 1999". This document provides clear evidence that J. Douglas Ing had multiple conflicts-of-interest in this case and, since he was not a named Defendant in my RICO lawsuit against the former Trustees, he was not a legitimate signatory to the Settlement Agreement: Furthermore, since the Settlement Agreement was NOT SIGNED by any of the five Trustees actually named as Defendants, the Settlement Agreement was not legal or valid. (See Exhibit A)

http://www.kycbs.net/Lindsey-docs-Vol-1-p1-4.pdf

http://www.kycbs.net/Lindsey-docs-Vol-1.pdf

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March 11, 2004

Trust plans $9M
in HECO office repairs

The utility leases the downtown
space from Kamehameha Schools

By Rick Daysog, Star-Bulletin

Kamehameha Schools plans to spend $9 million to renovate Hawaiian Electric Co.'s downtown headquarters.

Under the terms of a proposed 20-year lease, Kamehameha Schools will spend $5 million over the next year to upgrade the historic Richards Street building, people familiar with the negotiations said.

The $6 billion charitable trust -- which owns the 40,000-square-foot structure and the land beneath it -- will add $2 million in tenant improvements in the next several years and another $2 million in the 11th year of the lease.

The deal underscores the interlocking relationships between the two organizations, but Kamehameha Schools officials said that trustees who also hold positions at HECO and its affiliated companies are playing no role in the lease negotiations.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Constance Lau heads HECO's sister company American Savings Bank, and trustee Diane Plotts is a director of HECO's parent Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.

A third Kamehameha Schools trustee, attorney Douglas Ing, is a partner in the Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji law firm, which represents HECO on regulatory matters.

Kamehameha Schools' internal policies require board approval on all construction projects valued at $1 million or more. But people familiar with the deal said the HECO lease has not yet gone to Kamehameha Schools' board for review.

Under the Probate Court-mandated conflict-of-interest policy for the estate, trustees Ing, Lau and Plotts may have to recuse themselves if the lease goes to the board, leaving the five-member board without a quorum, people familiar with the trust said. The estate's board will then have to petition the Probate Court for instructions on handling the matter.

HECO, which has occupied the Richards Street offices since 1927, said its current lease will expire in November.

Lynne Unemori, HECO's director of corporate communications, said HEI's board played no role in the negotiations. One person familiar with the talks said Lau, Ing and Plotts were not involved in any of HEI's discussions on the matter.

Unemori declined to discuss the specific terms of the lease, saying the deal is not final. But she said the proposed deal makes business sense for both the estate and HECO.

People familiar with the negotiations said HECO's rent payments, currently set at $650,000 a year, will increase to $775,000 a year during the first five years of the lease. That annual rent will increase every five years to about $1.3 million during the final five-year period covered by the lease.

During the next 20 years, Kamehameha Schools stands to receive about $18 million in rent payments, or double the amount in planned tenant improvements.

HECO said its building requires significant repairs to its ventilation system and elevators. The building also requires major construction to comply with federal guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to one person familiar with the discussions.

Unemori said HECO has looked at other downtown sites for possible relocation.

Kamehameha Schools' links to HEI are not limited to the boardroom.

HEI Chief Executive Robert Clarke's wife, Edwina, is Kamehameha Schools' treasurer, and HEI Chief Financial Officer Eric Yeaman previously served as Kamehameha Schools' chief financial officer.

HEI board member Oswald Stender is a former Kamehameha Schools trustee, while Ing's law partner Jeffrey Watanabe is an HEI director. Watanabe also is a board member of Oahu Publications Inc., the parent company of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/03/11/news/story3.html

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October 11, 2006

The Real Deal Behind Granholm's "U. P. Big Deal"

By C. J. Williams, www.MichNews.com

On January 6, 2005 the Yooper grapevine was abuzz with news of another State of Michigan/Nature Conservancy land grab scheme involving 271,000 acres in eight counties, an amount equivalent to 502 square miles. The parcel had been carved from 390,000 forestland acres situated in ten of the Upper Peninsula’s fifteen counties.

Described by the Conservancy as an ecological treasure trove of nature’s precious jewels and pristine landscapes, the 390,000 acres, once owned by the Bishop Estate Trust (a.k.a. Kamehameha Schools Trust), includes more than 300 lakes and 526 miles of rivers and streams. However, as Paul Harvey would say, it’s time to tell the rest of the story about Governor Granholm’s “U. P. Big Deal”, also known as the Nature Conservancy’s “Northern Great Lakes Forest Project”.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the great-granddaughter and last direct descendent of Hawaiian King Kamehameha I. Born to high priests, Bernice was raised by a prime minister and educated by Protestant missionaries. While in her teens, she married Charles Bishop, a 28-year old New Yorker.

After her death in 1884, Charles helped establish the Kamehameha Schools and subsequent Bishop Trust according to Bernice’s last will and testament. To do so he used her substantial land holdings and his considerable wealth.

The Bishop Trust, Hawaii’s largest private landowner once estimated to be worth $10 billion or more, still operates schools and educational programs throughout the islands. Over the past several decades, the scandal-ridden Trust has been raided through convoluted schemes that almost defy unraveling.

So how did it come to pass that a Hawaiian trust fund once owned so much of Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula? The answer lies in a purported friendship between Ben Benson and Mark McConaghy, a PricewaterhouseCoopers tax expert hired by the Bishop Estate trustees to keep the IRS off their greedy backs. But, I get ahead of myself.

Some of the 271,000 acres, now lauded as Granholm’s “U.P. Big Deal”, once belonged to the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. By the late 1960’s, however, C & H could no longer afford to mine copper while meeting all the new environmental standards being put in place. Having to compete with China and other countries, which produce ore with cheap labor while ignoring environmental issues, and facing demands of better pay from its own striking miners in 1968, C & H closed its mines and sold its land holdings to Universal Oil Products.

A similar fate met miners who rode buses for up to an hour or more to the Copper Range mine near White Pine in Ontonagon County. An environmental lawsuit filed in 1995 by the National Wildlife Federation, the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, and others, plus a successful effort to agitate a band of Native Americans over environmental issues, helped end copper’s glory days there, too. But the world’s greatest source of native copper, uranium, gas, oil, and other valuable underground resources still lie waiting in the U.P. and the State of Michigan, the Conservancy, and global mining conglomerates know it.

Ben Benson, a very young New Englander, amassed some of the former C & H property in the late 1980’s, combined it with 292,000 acres purchased in 1990 from Cliff’s Forest Products (Cleveland-Cliffs), added a little bit more from here and there, and set about developing a high-tech, satellite-enhanced timbering operation, or so the tale is told.

According to Maura Singleton’s August 1999 article, “Sea Hawk”, published in the Virginia Business Magazine, 40-year-old Benson had been a dyslexic and indifferent student who dropped out of school in the ninth grade. At age 15, he stole the family car, drove from Cape Cod to Maine, and used a newly obtained credit card to buy 100 acres of rocky wilderness, which he subdivided and sold in 5-acre vacation plots.

Singleton wrote that, at age 17, Benson joined the Navy submarine corps and worked with sonar on a nuclear fast-attack sub, but his plan for a Navy career went by the wayside four years later due to allergies.

By the early 1980’s, Benson, who claimed never to have done anything for more than four years, had already run an oil company and a New Hampshire real estate development company.

He then focused attention on the state of Virginia, marrying the granddaughter of an East Shore developer, an area where the Nature Conservancy (TNC) controlled and mismanaged a great deal of land. It was here that Benson again took up work in real estate, developing exclusive coastline property.

In 1991, Benson, with title to about half-a-million U.P. acres, became involved in a partnership of sorts with the Bishop Estate Trustees through his pal, Mark McConoghy. But, in 1994 at age 35, after surviving two heart attacks within an 8-month period, he sold his U.P. land holdings to the Trust for a few million dollars and bought a 65-foot Hatteras, which he christened “Sea Hawk”.

The partnership may have dissolved, but it later caused Benson’s name to come up in Bobby Harmon’s RICO lawsuit - Civil No. 99-00304 DAE: Harmon v Federal Insurance Company, P & C Insurance Co., Inc., Marsh & McLennan, Inc., Trustees of Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, et al, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Harmon is still immersed in litigation regarding his claims of fraud, tax evasion, racketeering and other wrongful acts involving the Bishop Land Trust. His lengthy witness list, which he adds to almost daily, includes newly appointed U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who is a former Goldman Sachs CEO. Paulson was also a Board member of the Nature Conservancy and served as co-chairman of its Asia Pacific Council. At one time, the scandal-ridden Bishop Trust owned a great deal of Goldman Sachs stock.

When Benson was featured in the “Sea Hawk” article, he was searching for millions of dollars worth of lost treasure off Virginia’s coast and dueling with Spain for the right to do so. He’s since sold that venture, Sea Hawk, Inc., to wheeler and dealer Peter Knollenberg.

Considering that Benson had been a dyslexic, fifteen-year-old credit card-owning high school dropout and run-away, his estimated fortune, said to be around $110 million several years ago, isn’t too shabby.

After Benson sold his U.P. holdings to the Bishop Trust, Benson Forest Products became known as Munising based Shelter Bay Forests, which managed the trust’s U.P. land holdings with “gentle timbering” technology until the forestland was put up for bids in the fall of 2002.

Although Governor Engler, the Conservancy, and an “undisclosed timber company” formed a “private-public” partnership to bid on the Bishop Trust land, they lost out to Forestland Group LLC, which closed on their deal during the summer of 2003.

Founded in 1995, Forestland Group is a North Carolina based forest investment management organization (TIMO) that purchases property through its various Heartwood Forestland Funds. As of April 2005, Forestland Group owned 560,000 Upper Peninsula acres; 78,110 acres in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties bought from Mead in 1998, 91,117 acres in Iron, Ontonagon, Houghton and Baraga Counties bought from Ned Lake Timber and Land Company in 2001, and the remainder being the former Bishop Trust holdings of 389,202 acres bought in the summer of 2003.

Within a few months of closing on the Bishop Trust deal, Forestland Group offered its prize to the State of Michigan, and by January 2004 the Michigan Chapter of the Nature Conservancy had already secured at least one grant toward the purchase. That’s not surprising, however, considering that a January ‘05 news article written by George Gallagher for the Council of Michigan Foundations lauds several foundations that had taken an active role to help TNC’s Michigan chapter in their then four-year public/private partnership initiative to get their biscuit hooks on the Upper Peninsula Bishop Trust timberland.

Upon learning in 2002 that the public/private partnership lost the bid, Phil Powers, then chairman of the MI-Nature Conservancy, said Forestland Group could fit in with the Conservancy’s goals. “Our sense is they’ve got a first-class track record of putting in place solutions like the ones we’re working on. We in the Nature Conservancy are looking forward to working out a partnership with them,” said Powers.

Tina Hall, the U.P. director of the MI-Nature Conservancy, said the idea of securing recreational access easements to portions of the property was not dead. “…We know the Forestland Group so well, we feel we can work with them,” said Hall.

As the story behind the “U.P. Big Deal” unfolded, it was claimed that key players met at Governor Granholm’s office in November 2003. And, though she had to put the parties in separate rooms when negotiations broke down and shuffle back and forth with offers and counter-offers until she got them to make a deal, an agreement was finally made between the two who’ve been bed partners for years - the State of Michigan and the Nature Conservancy - in tandem with Forestland Group LLC, whose President and CEO is none other than Thomas Massengale, a former Nature Conservancy senior executive and founder of it’s North Carolina Chapter.

Of the 390,000 Bishop Trust acres for which Forestland Group outbid the State, the Nature Conservancy, and their “unnamed” timber company partner, the Conservancy, with multi-billion dollars in tax-exempt assets, will own fee interest (includes mineral rights) in 23,338 acres in the Big Two Hearted River watershed and will manage the State’s conservation easement on 248,000 acres still owned by Forestland Group.

A campaign to fund Granholm’s “U.P. Big Deal” land grab for the Conservancy’s $57.9 million “Northern Great Lakes Forest Project” got underway without anyone asking state citizens if they approved of her Big Deal or not.

Pretty slick, eh!

http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-23442
_21974-107788--M_2005_1,00.html

http://www.kycbs.net/GUIDE

http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=
ind9807&L=sub-arch&T=0&P=1381

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/natureconservancy/

http://www.virginiabusiness.com/magazine/yr1999
/aug99/itsup/cover.html

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/
states/michigan/preserves/art17158.html

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica
/states/michigan/misc/art14792.html

http://www.mass.gov/obcbbo/bd93-042-2.htm

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January 27, 2006

Aloha Airlines achieves deal to
ascend from bankruptcy

By Dave Segal, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Aloha Airlines has reached a new deal with its investors that soon could fly the carrier out of bankruptcy.

The company, whose emergence from bankruptcy was delayed last month by an appeal from the federal agency that guarantees pension plans, filed a motion yesterday seeking a hearing Tuesday before Bankruptcy Judge Robert Faris on a restructured reorganization proposal.

A NEW BEGINNING

Key features of Aloha Airlines' modified reorganization plan:

» $43.25 million in cash from the Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund I LP

» $16.8 million in cash and converted debt from the Aloha Aviation Investment Group

» $2.2 million from Aloha Hawaii Investors LLC, consisting of the Ing family partnership of Richard Ing and his sister, Louise Ing Sitch; Hawaii developer Stanford Carr; Duane Kurisu; and Colbert Matsumoto

» $750,000 from GMAC

» $35 million in exit debt financing

» $4.5 million in cost savings

Aloha also is asking for a waiver of the 10-day comment period if Faris approves the new plan....

David Banmiller, president and chief executive of Aloha, said in a statement yesterday that he hopes the modifications allow for a successful completion of Aloha's bankruptcy reorganization and the recapitalization of the company.

"The new equity investment clearly strengthens Aloha's financial position and has the added advantage of participation by new Hawaii investors," Banmiller said.

Aloha's new plan includes $43.25 million in cash from the Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund I LP, headed by billionaire grocery magnate Ronald Burkle, and $16.8 million in cash and converted debt from Aloha Aviation Investment Group, led by former National Football League star Willie Gault. Yucaipa's cash investment is a $10 million increase from its previous proposal.

In addition, $2.2 million in cash is coming from a new group, Aloha Hawaii Investors LLC, which consists of the Ing family partnership of Richard Ing and his sister, attorney Louise Ing Sitch, both of whom are among the current owners of the airline; Hawaii developer Stanford Carr; Duane Kurisu, who has Hawaii commercial real estate and communications holdings; and Colbert Matsumoto, president of Island Holdings Inc., the parent company of Island Insurance.

Kurisu and Matsumoto are board members of Oahu Publications Inc., publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and MidWeek....

GMAC, the finance arm of General Motors, also is putting in $750,000 in cash....

Included in the new cost savings are the elimination of a proposed $2 million note and $175,000 cash distribution to Aloha's unsecured creditors. The total amount of unsecured claims against the carrier is approximately $207 million, according to the motion, and it is uncertain how many cents on the dollar unsecured creditors will get. However, the motion said the recovery to unsecured creditors under the modified plan will be reduced by less than 1 percent from what creditors were going to receive under the previous plan. Under that plan, unsecured creditors were expected to receive less than 5 cents on the dollar.

The attorneys and advisers connected with the case also have agreed to reduce their fees collectively by $1 million.

Aloha said in its filing that all key constituents support the plan and that it must be approved expeditiously.

"If not," the motion said, "there is the distinct possibility that (Aloha) could run out of cash and would be forced to cease operating, rendering 3,500 residents of the state of Hawaii unemployed, and severely harming the state of Hawaii's passenger and cargo operations."

The new deal became necessary when investors Yucaipa and AAIG balked after Aloha failed to emerge from bankruptcy by a Dec. 15 deadline. Aloha's first reorganization plan was approved on Nov. 29.

Aloha, which filed for bankruptcy on Dec. 30, 2004, saw its goal of emerging from Chapter 11 in less than a year thwarted when the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. filed several last-minutes appeals last month. The agency and Aloha have since reached a tentative settlement, though details have not been disclosed.

Aloha blamed the PBGC's appeals and rising fuel prices for the need to restructure the deal.

"These cost increases make the original plan's capital and price structure unworkable," the motion said.

http://starbulletin.com/2006/01/27/news/story04.html

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

David Black, Dan Case, Dennis Francis,
Larry Johnson, Duane Kurisu, Warren Luke,
Colbert Matsumoto, Jeffrey Watanabe, Michael Wo

Dennis Francis, Publisher

Lucy Young-Oda, Assistant Editor

Frank Bridgewater, Editor

Michael Rovner, Assistant Editor

Mary Poole, Editorial Page Editor

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 1, 2005

More Information Contact:
Grant Bishop
(858) 646-5553
email: gbishop@trexenterprises.com

TWO PROMINENT HAWAII LEADERS WILL
HELP GUIDE HIGH-TECH COMPANY

JEFFREY WATANABE AND LARRY JOHNSON ELECTED
TO THE TREX ENTERPRISES BOARD

Trex Enterprises Corporation is pleased to announce Jeffrey N. Watanabe, Esq. and Lawrence M. Johnson have been elected to its Board. Watanabe is a principal at Watanabe Ing Kawashima Komeiji, LLP, and Johnson is the past Chairman and CEO of Bank of Hawaii.

“Jeff Watanabe and Larry Johnson are extraordinary business leaders,” said Kenneth Y. Tang, Chairman and CEO of Trex Enterprises Corp. “We believe their expertise will help guide the direction of Trex.”

“We have two corporate powerhouses joining us to complement our team of visionaries and the opportunity to make a difference for the future is unlimited!” Said Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, USN (Ret.), Chairman of two of Trex’s subsidiaries, Loea Corporation and Sago Systems Inc. Admiral Fargo, Former Commander of the Pacific Command, joined Trex full-time following his Change of Command in February.

The Trex shareholders elected Watanabe and Johnson during its May 27^th annual meeting. Other members of the Trex Board include VADM Robert Kihune USN (Ret.) and Richard Black. Since 2002, Watanabe has served as a Director of the Board for Loea Corporation.

“I am continuously impressed with the technology, leadership, and vision of Trex Enterprises and I am honored to be appointed to its board,” said Jeffrey Watanabe. “Ken has assembled an incredible team creating state-of-the-art products ranging from high-speed communications to novel airport security systems.”

“Trex Enterprises is a fascinating company and I look forward to using my background and experiences to move the company forward,” said Larry Johnson. “Sophisticated technology, like Trex is creating and deploying, is instrumental to our military, our nation, and our future.”

About Trex Enterprises

Trex Enterprises is a high-tech incubator conducting research and development leading to state-of-the-art commercial and government solutions. Trex is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices in Hawaii (Honolulu, Maui, Kauai), Massachusetts, Washington DC and New Mexico. For information log on @ trexenterprises.com or loeacom.com

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Jeffrey Watanabe is expected to testify regarding his business, professional, and personal relationships with J. Douglas Ing, Jonathan Lai, First Hawaiian Bank, Constance Lau, Diane Plotts, Robert Clarke, Edwina Clarke, Dee Jay Mailer, Colbert Matsumoto, Island Insurance Co., Oswald Stender, Lokelani Lindsey, Dan Inouye, Daniel Akaka, Bill Frist, Bill Mills, Donna Tanoue, Maui County Council, Maui County Planning Commission, Maui Research and Technology Center; Duncan MacNaughton, David Cole, Maui Land & Pineapple, Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI), Eric Yeaman, Alexander & Baldwin, Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Paul Alston, The Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation, The Starr Foundation, Allen Hunter, Trex Enterprises Corp., Admiral Thomas Fargo, Don E. Carroll, Henry Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Peter Savio, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Chris Yuen, Suzanne Case, Steve Case, Jeffrey Case, Ed Case, William S. Richardson, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mark McConaghy, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Haunani Apoliona, Clayton Hee, Lawrence M. Johnson, Bank of Hawaii, Gilbert Tam, Robert K.U. Kihune, Sandwich Isles Communications, Summit Communications, Steven Guttman, Alan Ma, Mary Lou Woo, Henry Peters, Robert Katz, Nathan Aipa, Colleen Wong, William Rosehill, Susan Tius, Guido Giacometti, Earl Anzai, Lyn Anzai, Mark Bennett, Hugh Jones, J.P. Schmidt, George Ariyoshi, John Waihee, Ben Cayetano, University of Hawaii Foundation, Evan Dobelle, Judge Patrick Yim, Judge David Ezra, Judge Kevin Chang, Judge Barry Kurren, Faye Kurren, Linda Lingle, Bob Awana, First Insurance Company of Hawaii, Robin Campaniano, AIG Hawaii, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Rick Daysog, Ian Lind, Sally Apgar, Frank Bridgewater, James B. Nicholson, Lamarr Hunt, Barron Hilton, Curtis Ching, Carol Muranaka, Gayle Lau, Peter Young, John Waihee, Ben Cayetano, Linda Lingle, John Marshall, Greg Dunn, Bradley Tamm, Roy Hughes, John Goemans, Randall Roth, Judge Samuel King, Judge Eden Hifo (fna Bambi Weil); Judge Robert Faris, Judge Lloyd King, Constance Lau, Diane Plotts, Sukamto Sia, Oprah Winfrey, Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff, Ron Rewald, Ben Benson, Rocco Sansone, Marsh & McLennan, Marsh Affinity Group Services, Judge Alan Kay, James “Jim” Nicholson, Norm Brownstein, James B. Nicholson, David Farmer, Wally Chin, Rodney Park, and others to be named upon discovery.