BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - HONOLULU - MRC Greenwood has traveled for nearly one year out of her four-year tenure as University of Hawaii President, according to records obtained from the University administration. (see MRC Greenwood's travel records) Between June 2009 and February 2013, Greenwood was out of state for 238 days and traveling between islands for [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - HONOLULU — Allegations of corruption surrounding the University of Hawaii’s billion-dollar construction and procurement program have settled on Brian Minaai, a university administrator one contractor called “a nightmare” guilty at least of “blatant mismanagement.” School officials say they’ve asked the state attorney general to investigate the charges, including claims that Minaai directed contracts to [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - With tuition at the University of Hawaii rising 141 percent over the last 11 years, female students have found an unconventional method to cover the cost of education that can now cost nearly $10,000 a year for an undergraduate degree. They are signing up in record numbers with SeekingArrangement.com, a dating [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - A state probationer suing Honolulu police for alleged civil rights violations is facing new criminal charges after police reported last month that they caught him in the act of raping a 13-year-old girl, according to court records. Dewitt Lamar Long, 45, filed suit against the HPD last year, claiming officers violated his [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - KAILUA, OAHU - Residents living near the beachfront homes where President Barack Obama and First Family vacation with their friends every year since 2008 were alerted on Monday to some specifics of the Obamas' holiday vacation plans. The report delivered to residents living along the ocean and canal that surrounds the multi-million [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN AND JIM DOOLEY - A warrant for the arrest of Kauai Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho Jr. on charges that he stole more than $5,000 of county gasoline in 2009 and 2010 has been submitted to two state judges on the Garden Isle who reportedly refused to sign the warrant until there is [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Federal officials today announced the indictment of two Mainland men for their alleged involvement in the $200,000 “Wonder Blunder” fundraiser scam at the University of Hawaii. (See the full video of the press conference here) Charged are Marc Hubbard, 44, of Mecklenburg, N.C., and Sean Barriero, 44, of Miami. A [...]
BY JIM DOOLEY - The driver of a massive city sewage tanker truck was using and selling crystal methamphetamine while on the public payroll and even stayed on the job for seven months after he was charged with federal drug trafficking offenses last year, according to court records and interviews. City officials said they didn’t [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - MIAMI, FLORIDA – A scam by principals in the Miami, Florida-based talent agency Epic Talent LLC that targeted the University of Hawaii and left the school short $200,000 and without the Stevie Wonder concert the company agreed to stage, may extend as far as North Carolina. Before Epic Talent LLC of [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN AND JIM DOOLEY - MIAMI, FLORIDA – Epic Talent LLC - the company that took a $200,000 deposit on the promise of staging a Stevie Wonder concert at the University of Hawaii in August but had no authority to do so -bills itself as “reliable consulting source for accessing big name entertainment for [...]
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