Small Prices

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Summary: End of July 04 Update
Review: End of July 04 Update

A senior executive for a large engineering firm, earlier fined for making illegal campaign contributions to the Honolulu Mayor (D), admitted in court to "complying with a '50-year, long standing tradition' of making illegal contributions to the Democratic Party (bankrolling politicians) in return for preferential treatment in bidding for city contracts. The president of this same company pleaded "no contest" to felony money laundering charges. The senior executive was fined $2,000.00 and given a one year suspended jail sentence. A State Senator (D) was fined $21,000.00 for using campaign funds for personal expenses. Another State Senator (D) is under investigation for funneling campaign funds into her husband's Chinatown drug deals. A State Liquor Commissioner, and former State Deputy Sheriff, has been sentenced to 20 months in a federal prison for bribery, extortion and racketeering. He joins seven other Liquor Commissioners. Eleven "hostile and confrontational" locals charged with rampaging a campground near public beach in which 50 campers were assaulted and terrorized. Three campers required medical attention. A City Wastewater Treatment Plant Supervisor was indicted for bribery and theft.


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Summary: From the Author Mid-July 04 Update
Review: From the Author Mid-July 04 Update

A Native Hawaiian activist group that commandeered a large tract of land on Oahu's north shore and subsequently forced a lease agreement with the state of Hawaii has "drawn a line in the sand" over the state's attempt to recover the land for lease violations. The leader of the activist group is a former muscle-lieutenant for a north shore godfather of cocaine trafficking who was nabbed by authorities during an international drug exchange in Waikiki.

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Summary: From the Author End-June 04 Update
Review: The Big Island of Hawai'i described in the novel has more than 1,000 felony fugitives according to the U. S. Marshals Service. Some 98 were arrested in a recent one-week sweep. The Marshals Service claims to have some 4,000 unserved felony warrants for this island alone. With a population of some 100,000 people, crime is an occupation plaguing Hawai'i.

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Summary: From the Author Mid-July 04 Update
Review: This book is awesome. There is massive corruption in both government and private sector in Hawaii and this book brings it to the forefront where any reader - even elementary level - can understand it and in total shock. Some of the scenes are a little graphic with sexual overtones. If you have been the victim of corruption, this book is for you.

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Summary: Candid Truth
Review: This book is awesome. There is massive corruption in both government and private sector in Hawaii and this book brings it to the forefront where any reader - even elementary level - can understand it and in total shock. Some of the scenes are a little graphic with sexual overtones. If you have been the victim of corruption, this book is for you.

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Summary: Paradise or Hell, you decide!
Review: This book makes you definitely think twice about going on vacation. And how Hawaii can be so cosmetic in appearance. While I was reading this novel it gave me chills to think that "Easy Eddie" exists. You would never think that a place like Hawaii would have organized crime like that. Just another fabulous book by the man himself, Justice Hawk. Thanks Hawk.