Cartography for Guppies
Why a guppy with a laptop is mapping the sharks — and how to read the map.
Read the report →Oahu Underground Investigations | Public-Interest Files on Hawaii Institutions
Investigations
The Public Record
Each issue of Oʻahu Underground takes publicly available records and shows what they look like laid next to each other. Financial disclosures, board rosters, donor lists, court filings — the network isn't hidden, it's just that nobody with a masthead has any incentive to draw the lines between the dots.
The Zone of Politeness: How Hawaiʻi's Media Blackout Works
How donor relationships, board overlaps, and personnel bridges create a 'zone of politeness' that shields Hawaiʻi's elite from investigative journalism—and what happened when I tried to break through.
Read the report →Wilson Loo: Investigation into Suborning Perjury & Judicial Corruption in Hawaii
Investigation into alleged suborning of perjury by Judge Wilson Loo, loopholes within the Commission on Judicial Conduct, and interaction with Judge Audrey Stanley.
Read the report →The Nod: Wilson Loo and the Silent Felony in Hawaii's First Circuit
How a sitting judge committed a felony from the bench with nothing more than a nod — directing a witness to lie under oath, then sealing the record to ensure it never happened.
Read the report →Exhibit A: Federal Intervention in Hawaii [Archived]
[Archived] This article has been superseded by the records-first investigation series.
Read the report →A Case Study in Systemic Protection: Institutional Decay in Hawaii
Multi-decade case study showing how legal, law-enforcement, and corporate actors reinforce one another to neutralize accountability and shield connected interests.
Read the report →The Aloha Protection Racket
How documented institutional failures across the judiciary, law enforcement, and oversight bodies in Hawaiʻi shielded an individual accused of violence from accountability.
Read the report →The Index: How Bing Blocked an Entire Domain to Bury One Judge's Name
Bing blocked an entire domain — including open-source Elixir software repos — after investigations into Judge Wilson Loo were published. The screenshots are from Microsoft's own tools.
Read the report →The Zero Commission
Seven members. All appointed by the Supreme Court they exist to oversee. 1,009 inquiries. Seven formal complaints. Zero sustained. This is the architecture of unaccountability.
Read the report →The Paper Bag and the Architecture of Self-Investigation
The AG opposed a special counsel bill in 2024, saying the power already existed. In 2026, asked to investigate her own boss, she says no such power exists. The bill is dead — killed by her own testimony. The loop is closed.
Read the report →The Two Questions: How One Interview Closes the Wilson Loo Case
The federal case against retired Judge Wilson Loo turns on one witness, two questions, and a statute of limitations clock with approximately 1.8 years remaining. The evidence trail is laid. The referral is filed. This is the map.
Read the report →The Shape of the Cage
Seven layers of pressure that assemble themselves without coordination. A catalog of the architecture documented across COINTELPRO, Stasi Zersetzung, watchlisting, and modern surveillance — and the pressure points where it breaks.
Read the report →The Closed Loop
Every branch of Hawaii government has built an oversight mechanism controlled by the institution it exists to oversee. The overseer reports to the overseen. The loop is closed.
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