Cachola fined a record $50,000 for City Ethics Violations
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – State House Majority Whip Romy Cachola, a Democrat from Kalihi, has been fined $50,000 by the Honolulu Ethics Commission for alleged ethics violations after settling his...
View ArticleHawaii students get gift cards to participate in sex education program
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies gives gift cards to middle school students who participate in a controversial sex education program. The gift...
View ArticlePflueger sends inflammatory letter to victim of Kauai dam breach
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – KILAUEA, KAUAI – Just hours before Jimmy Pflueger is sentenced on a “Reckless Endangering” felony charge brought against him by the state after his Ka Loko Dam breached on March...
View ArticlePflueger sentenced in Kauai dam breach tragedy that killed 7 people
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – LIHUE, KAUAI – More than eight years after the Ka Loko Dam breached on Kauai’s North Shore killing 7 people and an unborn child, James Pflueger, the man the state said was...
View ArticleNo consequences for key politician in Kauai dam breach tragedy
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – KILAUEA, KAUAI – Retired Auto Dealer Jimmy Pflueger was sentenced to 7 months in prison Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. He pleaded “no contest” to a Reckless Endangering charge filed...
View ArticleMatson to pay $1 million for Honolulu molasses spill under plea agreement
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU — Matson Terminals Inc., the company responsible for spilling 220,000 gallons of molasses into Honolulu Harbor in September 2013, has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor...
View ArticleFBI Sting Nabs Alleged Honolulu Investment Scammer
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – Curtis Wayne Ross promised the manager of Little Angels he’d invest the charity’s $15 million, generating a 50 percent to 70 percent return within 120 days through a...
View ArticleHawaii doctor accused of fraud, elderly and child abuse, under investigation...
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – A well-known doctor who lost his medical license in California in Nov. 2013 for “unprofessional conduct, gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, making false...
View ArticleHawaii’s billions in unfunded retirement liabilities part of national trend
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU — A new report from State Budget Solutions, a national nonprofit organization focusing on states’ fiscal responsibility, warns it’s time for newly elected state officials...
View ArticleUniversity of Hawaii won’t talk about sex education program
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – Hawaii State Rep. Bob McDermott is slamming the University of Hawaii over its refusal to disclose data collected from middle school students during a controversial sex...
View ArticleSix weeks behind bars for seven lives? Pflueger released from prison months...
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – James Pflueger’s Oct. 15 sentencing in Kauai’s 5th circuit court caused a great stir in the islands after he was given just seven months in prison on a reckless...
View ArticleMan gets 33 months in prison after threatening to decapitate congresswoman
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN- HONOLULU -Threatening to decapitate a congresswoman has landed a former Hawaii resident in federal prison. Aniruddha Sherbow, 44, was sentenced Monday to 33 months in federal prison...
View ArticleUniversity of Hawaii athletics must tackle fiscal woes
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU — The University of Hawaii Athletic Department has faced a series of fiscal and staffing troubles in recent months, leading legislators, administrators and regents to...
View ArticleU.S. should respond aggressively to cyber attack, expert says
HONOLULU — The attack on Sony Pictures and threats to the movie industry cannot be tolerated, one of the nation’s leading security experts says. Lynn Mattice is president and CEO of the National...
View ArticleFBI: Investment Scams on the Rise in Hawaii
By Malia Zimmerman – HONOLULU – Curtis Wayne Ross was indicted this fall for allegedly defrauding three victims of $186,000, and he was re-indicted after being caught red handed in an FBI sting...
View ArticleObama’s Hawaii vacation is over, now it’s time for taxpayers to pay massive tab
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – President Barack Obama and his family just spent their Christmas and New Year’s holidays in Kailua. Now it’s time for taxpayers to pick up the tab. While the Obamas and...
View ArticleFormer Portlock madam convicted on federal drug charges
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – The former Porlock madam who said she ran an elite prostitution business for 10 years servicing celebrities, politicians and law enforcement, has been convicted on...
View ArticleHawaii financial advisor who targeted elderly sentenced to federal prison
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – HONOLULU – Kevin Alan Loux, owner of the Loux Financial Group, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and 5 years of supervised yesterday despite a tearful plea for mercy to...
View ArticleHawaii Obamacare exchange projected to be financially viable — in 2022
By Malia Zimmerman | Watchdog.org HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Obamacare exchange, Hawaii Health Connector, has been under fire for being the most costly in the nation, and a new report from the Hawaii Commerce...
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