Two companies controlled by Hawaii businessman Al Hee, along with their officers and employees, contributed about $250,000 to members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation and several Democratic Party PACs between 1998 and the end of 2014, according to online records of the Federal Communications Commission.
The contributions made by Hee and other officers and employees of Sandwich Isles Communications and its parent company, Waimana Enterprises.
According to FEC records, money went directly to the campaigns of members of Congress, almost all to Hawaii’s representatives and senators, as well as to political party committees.
Hee was convicted on tax charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a plan to evade taxes by claiming personal expenses as business expenses, and failing to report those payments as income. He is currently awaiting sentencing.
The list of contributions is divided by the company listed as the employer of the donor, and then by date.
I’ll add subtotals for each of the campaigns receiving donations a bit later.
–> See the federal contributions from Hee and his companies here.
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Stop smearing him!!! He might sue you.
But seriously, it’s pretty amazing that Hawaii media never investigated this obvious angle in detail.
Then again, not really amazing at all.
Maybe one of our favorite bloated blowhards will rip and regurgitate now.
The following campaigns & committees received 80% of the funding from the companies controlled by Al Hee, along with officers and employees:
OBAMA VICTORY FUND 2012 $71,600
DNC SERVICES CORP./DEM. NAT’L COMMITTEE $49,100
HANABUSA, COLLEEN WAKAKO VIA HANABUSA $32,600
INOUYE, DANIEL K VIA DAN INOUYE FOR US SEN $22,900
ABERCROMBIE, NEIL VIA ABERCROMBIE FOR CO $21,300
AKAKA, DANIEL KAHIKINA VIA AKAKA IN 2006 $11,400
HIRONO, MAZIE MRS VIA FRIENDS OF MAZIE $11,250
DAN PAC $10,000
Data taken from:
http://ilind.net/misc%20/2015/al-hee-fec.pdf
Much of this stuff was covered by Andrew Walden over 5 years ago. The Inouye-SIL copulation was ignored by the local media then. Should anything be different this time around?
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/2555/Campaign-contributions-Inouye-pushing-for-more-Sandwich-Isles-Communications-funding.aspx