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PNN presents KPD Blue- By Anthony Sommer

A Decade Of Racism, Sexism And Political Corruption In (And All Around) The Kauai Police Department.

KPD Blue

Table of Contents

Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the explosive news book by former Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter Anthony Sommer, and the tilt from “got windmills?” projecting how it would effect last year’s mayoral race.

Read Chapter 3
Read Chapter 4
Read Chapter 5
Read Chapters 6&7
Read Chapter 8
Read Chapter 9
Read Chapter 10
Read Chapter 11
Read Chapter 12
Read Chapter 13
Read Chapter 14
Read Chapter 15
Read Chapter 16
Read Chapter 17
Read Chapter 18
Read Chapter 19
Read Chapter 20
Read Chapter 21
Read Chapter 22
Read Chapter 23
Read Chapter 24
Read Chapter 25
Read Chapter 26
Regarding Sources
About the Author
Index

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In 1995, a Kauai Police Department sting operation busted a prostitution ring

KPD detectives transported the women back to KPD headquarters, took one into the watch sergeant’s office and closed the door.

Then they took off her clothes and fondled and photographed her.

Police supervisors looked the other way.

And that was just the beginning….

If you think banana republics, crooked cops, corrupt politicians and unethical government bureaucrats exist only in the Third World, welcome to Kauai: 100 miles west of and 100 years behind the rest of the United States.

KPD BLUE may be the only book about Kauai that contains no pretty pictures.

ANTHONY SOMMER is a veteran of almost four decades as a reporter for major metropolitan daily newspapers and covered Kauai for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

PNN Investigative Reports

Unethical culture- Government service with a personal “touch”

The Kaua`i Board of Ethics (BOE) is not just the most powerful but arguably the most politically corrupted, self-serving, and interest-conflicted board or commission (B’s and C’s) in the county.

Their BOE’s role in the politically motivated pogrom resulting in the purge of Police Chief KC Lum and Police Commission Chair Mike Ching is well documented in Tony Sommer’s book “KPD Blue” (serialized below).

But in the intervening three years not much has changed and indeed it has only gotten worse with BOE decisions that fly in the face of all ethical standards, all logic and in fact the plain reading of the county charter which prohibits those serving on B’s and C’s from “appearing on behalf of private interests” before their or any county B’s and C’s.

Read how three individuals- Chairs Mark Hubbard and Lei Fuller and Secretary Judith Lenthall- have used their power in a quest to violate ethics laws and how their lawless rulings have resulted in a free pass to corruption for everyone else in the revolving-door of county service and employ.

Read PNN’s three part series
Unethical culture- Government service with a personal “touch”
Read Part 1- Bored of Ethics on the Board of Ethics?
Read Part 2- The Long and Winding Road to Inertia
Read Part 3- Deep Thoughts- A “Handy” Diversion

Click here for all of our continuing coverage of the Kaua`i Board of Ethics

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From the archives...

Toxic waste dump "discovered" at KE’s `Ele`ele power plant.

Almost seven years ago, on July 17, 2002, Parx News Net (PNN) published an investigative report exposing an underground toxic waste dump- a 40 foot deep lake of petroleum products laced with heavy metals according to a consultant’s report- underneath what was then Kaua`i Electric’s `Ele`ele power plant.Despite the report, the sale of Kaua`i Eclectic (KE) to the Kaua`i Island Utility Co-op (KIUC) went forward with all liabilities transferred to the co-op members.

The mess and the potential cost of cleanup was not, from all reports at the time, considered in determining the sale price.The report was published in anticipation of the impending sale. Following the report is a reply from the KE environmental consultant followed by our reply to their letter, to which neither they nor KE nor KIUC has ever responded.

Read the PNN Investigative Report:Toxic waste dump "discovered" at KE’s `Ele`ele power plant.

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Moloa`a Water Theft- A continuing PNN Investigative series

It’s not Chinatown Jake, but it’s close.

About 10 years ago “someone” dammed up Moloa`a stream and re-built the long-defunct and dilapidated Moloa`a Ditch, diverting almost all the water that serves Moloa`a Valley through three tunnels that lead to Ka Loko Ditch.

From there the water flows into a system of underground pipes that serves Jimmy Pflueger’s properties in the Pila`a/Waiakalua/Wailapa area and with the excess dumped into the Ka Loko Reservoir which gave way killing seven people in 2006

Read PNN’s continuing- and so far exclusive- investigative coverage of the theft of Moloa`a water.

10 YEAR OLD ILLEGAL DITCH FED KA LOKO BEFORE DISASTER- PFLUEGER IMPLICATED (Wednesday, May 6, 2009)

PFLUEGER ’01 GRUBBING AND GRADING VIOLATION APPARENTLY COVERS OVER WATER PIPES FED BY ILLEGAL DITCH. (Friday, May 8, 2009)

EPA DOC SAYS PFLUEGER MOLOA`A DITCH RECONSTRUCTION REVERSED FLOW TO FEED KA LOKO (Wednesday, May 13, 2009)

BREWER CONTEMPLATED REPAIR TO DEFUNCT MOLOA`A DITCH IN ’86 (Friday, May 15, 2009)

DLNR COMPLAINT SEEKS RESTORATION OF MOLOA`A STREAM AND INVESTIGATION OF ILLEGAL DIVERSION (Friday, May 22, 2009)

REPORT: DAM DITCH INTAKE AND RETURN WATER TO MOLOA`A STREAM(Friday, June 26, 2009)

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