By Ekewaka Lono | Oahu Underground A local strategic assessment. Each section marks its epistemic status: confirmed reporting, analytic inference, or scenario projection. Where a sentence mixes fact …
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By Ekewaka Lono | Oahu Underground Second in a series. “The Federal Layer” documented how the institutional density surrounding retired Per Diem Judge Wilson M.N. Loo’s family …
The public record suggests that the case against retired Per Diem Judge Wilson M.N. Loo presents a narrow set of factual questions that standard investigative steps could confirm or falsify. It would …
Every system that destroys a person leaves a shape behind. Not a smoking gun. Not a signed order. A shape — a geometry of pressure that, once you learn to recognize it, appears across documented …
The Two Questions How One Interview Closes the Wilson Loo Case By Ekewaka Lono • Published: February 23, 2026 Previous reporting in this series has documented what happened in Judge Wilson M.N. …
In January 2024, Senate Bill 2107 arrived at the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was a small piece of legislation — a few paragraphs amending HRS §28-8 to let the Attorney General appoint independent …
Every branch of Hawaii government has built an oversight mechanism controlled by the institution it exists to oversee. The overseer is appointed by the overseen. Proceedings are sealed. Reform …
There is a building in Honolulu where complaints go to die. You wouldn’t know it from the outside. The Commission on Judicial Conduct operates with all the visible urgency of a tide pool — …
It takes less than a second to allegedly commit a felony from the bench, and if you know how to work the record, it never happened at all. In the case of Judge Wilson M.N. Loo, it didn’t require …
A publisher’s note from Ekewaka Lono I am one person with a laptop on the North Shore of Oʻahu, mapping a network that includes a Federal Reserve director, the founding family of Hawaiʻi’s …
An Oʻahu Underground investigative series examining structural forces in Hawaiʻi journalism I. The Interest In early 2025, I presented Honolulu Civil Beat with a dossier documenting structural …
Legal Notice This report documents alleged misconduct based on public records, court filings, and firsthand testimony. All individuals are presumed innocent. Firsthand claims are attributed to the …
Archival Notice This article was retired on February 25, 2026. Its original framing — presenting the documented record as a federal RICO case — does not meet the records-first epistemic standard …
Methodology & Editorial Standards This report presents an analysis of alleged institutional failures based on a synthesis of public records, firsthand accounts, and documented events. The case …
Legal Notice This report represents a good faith effort to document and disclose matters of serious public concern. All factual assertions are made with a reasonable basis and sincere belief in their …