Honolulu Civil Beat - March 21, 2013 - By Chad Blair
Internal squabbling is nothing new at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. But now one trustee has filed a formal ethics complaint against a fellow trustee over what she says are shady dealings in a $21 million property purchase.
The complaint by Rowena Akana against Haunani Apoliona is pending before the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.
Akana alleges that Apoliona should not have voted last year to approve purchase of the Gentry Pacific Design Center because she sits on the board of directors for Bank of Hawaii, OHA's financer of the purchase.
In her July 17 letter to the Ethics Commission, Akana argues that Apoliona's vote is "a clear violation" of the state's Ethics Code known as Chapter 84....
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