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Cartography for Guppies
Why a guppy with a laptop is mapping the sharks — and how to read the map.
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Multi-Part Series
In-Depth Investigations
Series
The Closed Loop
Series overview mapping Hawaii oversight and self-investigation patterns across the Hawaii Commission on Judicial Conduct, Attorney General, and SIPD. The reporting focuses on structural accountability limits.
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The Architecture of Access
A series mapping one network's reach across domestic federal oversight structures, PRC-facing institutional engagement, and financial disclosure using public records and attribution-disciplined sourcing.
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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.
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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.
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The Nod: Wilson Loo and the Silent Felony in Hawaii's First Circuit
How a sitting judge allegedly 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.
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Exhibit A: Federal Intervention in Hawaii [Archived]
[Archived] This article has been superseded by the records-first investigation series.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Barrel
Updated March 13: the core risk is no longer the first panic spike but whether escorts become commercially credible, whether Kharg stays inside the target set, and whether the threat environment broadens into a $150-plus oil scenario.
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The Radius of Order
A five-ring justice map that flips the American pattern inside out: maximum protection in the urban core, negotiated autonomy in the middle, and coercive exile at the edge. The point is exposure. It lays out the geography of order in plain view.
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The Chain of Custody
A public-record reconstruction of Snowden's route from Hawaii to Hong Kong to Moscow and of the unpublished archive's custody through WikiLeaks, private media, and Russian protection.
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