First there was Michael Buntenbah (also known as Michael Malone), a former bouncer at Mike Miske’s M Nightclub who is now facing federal racketeering charges along with Miske and nine others.

As I reported in a post on August 2, Buntenbah is the president of the small company that created and marketed the “Defend Hawaii” brand of clothing and accessories, according to state business registration records.

In a further search of those business registration records, I noticed that John B. Stancil, Mike Miske’s half-brother who is also a defendant in the case, set up his own company, Leverage Honolulu LLC, on August 8, 2018. The company registered the Waimanalo home owned by his parents as its principal business address.

The company apparently marketed clothing with the “Leverage HNL” logo.

A LeverageHNL Facebook page shows only two followers, although an Instagram account boasts 592 followers.

Leverage Entertainment LLC was the parent company of Miske’s M Nightclub in downtown Honolulu’s Restaurant Row, which closed in 2016 after a series of highly publicized assaults by its staff prompted further investigations and fines by the Honolulu Liquor Commission.

Stancil, 33, worked part-time as a bouncer at the club, according to court records, and was alleged to have taken part in several assaults. In May 2013, an arrest report indicated he was then employed as a stevedore with McCabe, Hamilton & Renny, the independent stevedoring company.