Senator Clayton Hee’s empty financial disclosures got a mention yesterday in the Star-Advertiser’s “Political Radar” blog. Hee put a smiley face on the issue, and Reporter Derrick DePledge got the comment. “I made a mistake. I take full responsibility for it. As soon as I was notified of it, I corrected it immediately,” the senator [...]
Senator Clayton Hee has filed a new personal financial disclosure statement which now includes additional sources of income and other information previously omitted. For years, Hee has filed reports that simply reported “None” for most categories of interests for himself and his wife, shielding his financial interests from public scrutiny and apparently flouting state law [...]
Tags: Clayton Hee·Financial Disclosure·Hawaii State Ethics Commission
Back on July 12, I noted that UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw had not yet filed the annual gift disclosure required by the state ethics law. The disclosure statement was due on June 30. Hinshaw’s statement was eventually received, signed at dated July 14, two weeks after the filing deadline. It was submitted via email [...]
Remember those free season tickets to UH athletic events that top level university administrators and members of the Board of Regents disclosed to the State Ethics Commission? The issue of free tickets came up in a 1996 Advisory Opinion issued by the commission, and guess what? Those perks may violate provisions of the state’s ethics [...]
Tags: athletics·free season tickets·Hawaii State Ethics Commission·University of Hawaii
Dan Mollway, who served as executive director of the State Ethics Commission for over 24 years, submitted this comment overnight. I decided it deserved to be promoted to a main post. Comments welcome, as always. A number of years ago I drafted as a first step and had introduced a bill to have all charges [...]
An editorial yesterday in the Star-Advertiser calls the State Ethics Commission’s recent firing of its executive director “mystifying”, blasts the commission for not being clear and forthcoming about its reasons for the action, and urges the commission to quickly disclose the minutes of its discussions in executive session, implying that a failure to do so [...]
The State Ethics Commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to determine whether its longtime executive director will retain his position. The agenda for the 9:30 a.m. meeting indicates the commission will consider public testimony before going behind closed doors to consider Mollway’s future. A 4-page sanitized version of the findings of a commission investigation [...]
