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18 articles tagged “Hawaii”

The Lawyer in the Room

This article serves as the companion legal argument to the open letter to Bosko Petricevic about the December 2, 2022 hearing. The open letter states the author’s firsthand report and asks what …

An Open Letter to Bosko Petricevic, Esq.

Editor’s note, May 15, 2026: A companion analysis, The Lawyer in the Room, explains why the answer to this letter matters under Hawaiʻi Rule of Professional Conduct 8.3(b). This letter states the …

The Barrel

Pacific OSINT & Security Analysis: This article sits outside the Hawaii judicial-accountability evidence chain. It is an energy and security risk assessment preserved with dated assumptions and …

The Bridges

By Ekewaka Lono | Oahu Underground Pacific OSINT & Security Analysis: This article is public-record security and access-safeguard analysis. It does not explain the Wilson Loo allegations, HPD …

Federal Triage and Governance Proximity

The public record suggests that the case against retired Per Diem Judge Wilson M.N. Loo turns on specific factual questions that standard investigative steps could answer. It would require one witness …

Mechanisms of Review Failure

When a complainant moves through multiple institutions and every channel closes, the most testable issues are procedural: what each institution did, what record it created, what it failed to review, …

The Paper Bag and the Architecture of Self-Investigation

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 …

The Closed Loop

Hawaii government repeatedly builds oversight mechanisms structurally tied to the institutions they exist to oversee. The overseer is appointed by or routed through the institution under review. …

The Zero Commission

There is a building in Honolulu where complaints can leave almost no public review trail. You would not know it from the outside. The Commission on Judicial Conduct operates behind confidentiality …

The Nod: Visual Report, Audio Sequence, and Review Gap

This article is about one disputed courtroom sequence: a firsthand visual report, a question asked under oath, an answer, an attempted record statement, an interruption, and a sealed audio record. …

Cartography for Guppies

A publisher’s note from Ekewaka Lono I am one person with a laptop on the North Shore of Oʻahu, reading public records about institutions that usually encounter each other behind closed doors: …

The Coverage Gap: Media Non-Coverage and Civic Overlap

An Oʻahu Underground investigation examining non-coverage, public-record overlap, and newsroom conflict risk in Hawaiʻi journalism Procedural note, May 15, 2026: This article documents non-coverage, …

The Shield Effect

Legal Notice This report documents reported misconduct based on public records, court filings, and firsthand testimony. All individuals are presumed innocent. Firsthand claims are attributed to the …

Exhibit A: Federal Intervention in Hawaii [Archived]

Archival Notice This article was retired on February 25, 2026. Its original framing — presenting the documented record as a federal RICO case — exceeded the records-first evidence standard adopted …

Hawaii Accountability Gaps: A Case Study

Methodology & Editorial Standards Editorial amendment, May 15, 2026: This article separates documented facts, firsthand reports, institutional context, and speculative associations. The evidence …