Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM
Las Vegas, NV 89118-2070
May 24, 2005
VIA fax @ (808) 586-1239
and e-mail: hawaiiag@hawaii.gov
Mark Bennett, Attorney General
State of Hawaii
425 Queen Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
RE: Request for Criminal Investigation of Marsh & McLennan, Inc.; Aon Corporation; Federal Insurance Co. (Chubb Group); XL Insurance; Kamehameha Schools; P&C Insurance Co.; PricewaterhouseCoopers, et al.
Dear Attorney General Bennett:
This is to inquire again into the status of my December 10, 2004 and May 5, 2005, letters to your office requesting a criminal investigation into the activities of the referenced companies in the State of Hawaii.
This is also to advise you that I have received a letter dated May 19, 2005, from Mr. Albert N. Moskowitz, Section Chief, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, in which he writes:
“This is a response to the facsimile to Hawaii Attorney General Mark Bennet’s office, dated May 5, 2005. Your correspondence was forwarded to this office. In your correspondence you request immediate action be taken against numerous corporations.
“The Criminal section of the Civil Rights Division has the responsibility of enforcing federal civil rights statutes. The enforcement activity involves deprivation of civil rights under color of law, generally police brutality (18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242)....
“We have carefully reviewed the information which you furnished. However, we have concluded that your complaint does not involve a prosecutable violation of federal criminal civil rights statutes. This is not a judgment on the truth or merit of your complaint, it is simply to inform you that this is not the type of case that this office could prosecute. Accordingly, we are unable to assist you.”...
Mr. Bennett, this letter from the U.S. Department of Justice is of great concern to me and raises a number of questions.
First, my previous letters to you regarding this matter request a criminal investigation of the reference companies based upon alleged “bid-rigging, over-charging, bribery, accepting kick-backs, racketeering, or other illegal activities.” There were no reports or allegations of civil rights violations. Therefore, I do not understand why you would send a copy of my May 5, 2005 letter to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for a response.
Second, I must question why your office did not acknowledge receipt of my letters, as I had requested, and why you would forward these letters to the U.S. Department of Justice without advising me of the action you were taking, or sending me a copy of your letter to the DOJ.
Third, as I stated in my May 5, 2005 letter, several other states have already brought action and settled claims in the hundreds of millions of dollars with some of these companies, so there appears to be little doubt that these are serious, prosecutable crimes and that they fall under state jurisdiction.
Therefore, I again request that your office act immediately to take action against any companies that may be involved in the criminal activities that I have documented and reported to your office over the past eight years.
Copies of my previous letters, and additional related information regarding these companies and their illegal activities, can be found at the following Internet addresses:
www.the-catbird-seat.net/Claim-Hawaii-AG-12-10-4.htm
www.the-catbird-seat.net/Claim-Hawaii-AG-5-5-5.htm
www.the-catbird-seat.net/Claims-By-Harmon.htm
www.the-catbird-seat.net/Claims-Branch-AttorneyGeneral.htm
Your prompt acknowledgment of receipt of this letter is requested.
Very truly yours,
Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM
cc: Governor Linda Lingle, State of Hawaii
(via fax @ 808-586-0006)
Hugh Jones, Deputy Attorney General
(via fax @ 808-586-1477)
Margery Bronster, Esq. (former Hawaii Attorney General)
(via Email: info@bchlaw.net)
J.P. Schmidt, Hawaii Insurance Commissioner
(via fax @ 808-586-2806)
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
(via e-mail: www.naic.org)
Janet Hughes, Internal Revenue Service
(via fax @ 303-844-3596)
Billy Beaver, Pension & Welfare Benefit Admin.
(via fax @ 626-229-1098)
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice
(via fax @ 202-514-1116)
Dee Jay Mailer, CEO, Kamehameha Schools
(via fax @ 808-523-6313)
Edwina Clarke, Treasurer, Kamehameha Schools
(via fax @ 808-523-6313)
Edwina Clarke, President, P&C Insurance Company, Inc.
c/o Alison Quinlivan, Marsh Management Services, Inc.
(via fax @ 808-585-3513 and Email: alison.quinlivan@marsh.com)
Michael G. Cherkasky, CEO, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
(via fax @ 212-345-4838)
John D. Finnegan, CEO, The Chubb Corporation
(via fax @ 908-903-2027 and Email: info@chubb.com)
Lissa H. Andrews, Esq., Rush Moore LLP
Atty for Federal Insurance Co, in CV99-00304-DAE (The RICO lawsuit)
(via fax @ 8-8-521-0597 and Email: landrews@rmhawaii.com)
Lyn Flanigan Anzai, Hawaii State Bar Association
(via fax @ 808-521-7936 and Email: lflanigan@hsba.org)
Susan Tius, Esq., c/o Rush Moore Craven Sutton Morry & Beh
(via fax @ 808-521-0597)
Gerard Jervis, Lokelani Lindsey, Henry Peters, Oswald Stender, Richard
Wong
c/o Kenneth Hipp, Esq., Marr Hipp Jones & Pepper
(via fax @ 808-536-6700)
Jeffrey H.K. Sia, Esq., Ayabe Chong Nishimoto Sia & Nakamura
(via fax @ 808-526-3491)
Kobi Gibbs, ALPS, Claims Administrator for Bradley Tamm and Greg Dunn
(via fax @ 406-728-7416)
Mike Coulter, Deputy Managing Director, Aon Insurance Managers
(via fax @ 808-540-4301 and Email: mike_coulter@agl.con.com)
Colbert Matsumoto, CEO, Island Insurance Co.
(via fax @ 808-564-8456)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, c/o Warren Price III, Esq.
(via fax @ 808-533-0549)
Terry Mullen, CEO/Pres., John Mullen & Co.
(via fax @ 808-531-0053)
Mary Lou Woo, c/o Steven Guttman, Kessner Duca Umebayashi...
(via fax @ 808-529-7177 and e-mail: sguttman@kdubm.com)
William K. Slate II, President/CEO, American Arbitration Association
(via fax @ 212-716-5905 and Email: Websitemail@adr.org)
James B. Farris, Senior Case Manager, American Arbitration Association
(via fax @ 559-490-1919 and e-mail: Farrisj@adr.org)
Judith Neustadter Fuqua, Esq.
(via Email: Judy@tiki.net)