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Just this lawsuit is related to more than $1 million scam, and it has an organized crime network throughout Hawaii legal and judicial system. LEAD JUDGE WAS AN EX PARTNER OF LAW FIRM WORKING AGAINST ME.
The HOA was trying to hide scams worth about $300,000 done in 2016-2020. I exposed it. The HOA retaliated and sued me in a frivolous SLAPP lawsuit without evidence.. The HOA won in an unfair arbitration by fraud, corruption, testimony without evidence, cutting out my evidence, misconduct and other improper means. We are in appeals stage now. The presiding Judge on my appeals case was most recently a partner in the law firm that works against me. This law firm used malpractice on behalf of HOA insurance that knew about it. This Judge already ruled in HOA favor in disregard of evidence.
In its attempts to avoid paying for $300,000 damages, HOA side pulled insurance, attorneys, arbitrator, Circuit Court and Appeals Court Judges colluding to make this case into about $1 million scam. This case is more than $1 million dollars white collar crime and extortion, including essentially stealing my $400,000 condo to silence me plus extorting more than $500,000 from all owners and causing damage of more than $200,000 to building property. Our HOA is small, only 12 owners, so these are significant burdens to individuals. So far, other owners vote for the HOA leaders as they provide perks. See details below. All dollar amounts in this writeup are approximated.
Right now the HOA is foreclosing on my condo and I need your help to keep my condo. The Courts ignore all evidence because "arbitrators are allowed to make mistakes." The truth is that the law states that Court has to weed out improper arbitrations. The arbitrators and Court in Hawaii ignore federal and state arbitration rules and other mandatory laws, rules and regulations and, if not stopped, would set a precedent to legalize unfair trials and extortion and abuse anyone in Hawaii and eventually the USA.
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I own a condo in Hawaii, in a HOA that does not follow condo and other laws and swindles money. I exposed that the HOA improperly collected and was improperly spending $225,000 special assessment funds, that the property manger mishandled and botched new roof installation (estimated to be embezzlement of about $30,000 and damage caused of at least $150,000) and removed valuable building property without approval (estimated to be worth at least $50,000), that it was hidden from owners and fraudulently covered up with the help of the HOA attorney, and that the money was continuously spent ever since without approval and without documentation or information to owners. The HOA witnesses admitted to all this during the arbitration trial and it was ignored.
The HOA hired a "predominant" attorney firm known for malpractice and also involved HOA's Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance. The insurance hired a law firm that also malpractices and has deep connections into the Appellate Court, since one of their partners, most recently got a position as a Judge. The Circuit Court judge responsible for this case was sworn at the around the same time as this Appellate Judge, which probably means the same governor appointed them. Arbitrator "chosen" (rather, forced onto me) for this case is a mediator at the appellate court, worked as a judge for 25 years and has ties to other Appellate Court judges on this case.
I proved that the Arbitrator ran a brazenly unconstitutional unfair arbitration in bias of the HOA, practically entire "final report" on this case is in grave errors and manifest disregard of law. The Circuit Court Judge rubber stamped it, ignoring all my proofs that the arbitration ruling must be cancelled, per mandatory federal and state arbitration rules. The Appellate Court continues to ignore it.
With the help of arbitrator and Circuit and Appellate Courts, the HOA has a legal authorization to collect about $280,000 from me to pay for their attorney fees. Their attorney fees were never shown and "somehow" amount to the price of my condo at the time of arbitration. Their scam continued as the the HOA keeps paying the HOA attorneys another $225,000 for the same fees that I am supposed to pay, in other words it is a double dipping scam and the HOA attorney was caught lying about it. The HOA also continues to spend money without any approval of the Board nor owners. The Courts ignored ALL of my proofs of these scams.
Furthermore, since the lawsuit started the value of my condo has increased from about $280,000 to about $400,000 and the HOA will most likely take the difference of about $120,000 as "additional attorney fees." The HOA's attorneys are known for overbloated fees and extortion. See links to news articles below.
The HOA is surely in a privileged position to win the appeal case because Judge Keith Hiraoka is the assigned Presiding Judge on my Appeals case, joined by Judges Wadsworth and Guidry. Hiraoka was most recently a partner in the law firm that is defending the HOA on behalf of the insurance and he already showed evident gross bias in HOA favor. He and his predecessor Wadsworth already presided on intermittent rulings that the HOA is entitled to take my condo promptly and it is implied that I have no chance to win the appeal. Wadsworth has worked for law firm that merged with Danton, a global firm that specializes in Japanese markets and "assist in handling laws, rules and regulations." Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry is long time colleague of Wadsworth at the Hawaii Attorney General Office. Other Appellate Judges have proven conflict of interest too, for example Karen Nakasone.
No Judges ever cited any facts from the case, never demonstrated they understand the case, never demonstrated they have read my evidence. Circuit Court ruling has no justification, it is just a rubber-stamped arbitration ruling. Appellate Court denied stopping of foreclosure of my condo and justified their decision by citing an unrelated case. Judge Hiraoka copied the same unrelated ruling issued under Judge Wadsworth. No Judge ever reported Hiroka's conflict of interest.
Furthermore, the ex-partner Judge, his predecessor with ties into Japanese markets and "dealing with the rules, regulations and politics" and predecessor's long time colleague from Attorney General office are now assigned to be the judges to give the final appeal ruling on this case.
The Circuit Court Judge is Lisa Cataldo. Appellate Judge in conflict is Keith Hiraoka, who was a partner in Roeca Luria Hiraoka LLP lawfirm, which then became Roeca Luria Shin LLP. Hiraoka and Wadsworth presided over intermittent briefs written by Roeca and Shin and ruled in their favor, and will be presiding over the final ruling based on a brief written by Roeca . The predecessor judge is Clyde Wadsworth. The colleague form Hawaii Attorney General office is Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry.
In short, covering financial scam of about $300,000 and the insurance trying not to pay it, led to a rather large network of insurance, attorneys, arbitrator, Circuit Court and Appeals Court Judges collaborating to make this into a $1million financial scam and extortion.
The lead HOA culprit Lorre Jackson owner of Unit 103 at the HOA and a Board member and president for many years claims he was a Navy Seal for 25 years yet he was involved in many HOA's financial misconducts over the last 18 years.
Overall, this case has become $1million dollars white collar crime and extortion case and has to be stopped IMMEDIATELY.
Proper judges need to be assigned and rule in my favor. The case was once temporarily reassigned (during covid) to a judge known for his integrity. He ruled in my favor as the HOA does not have sufficient evidence. HOA never obtained any additional evidence and never has had sufficient evidence. The HOA won the lawsuit using fraud, perjury, testimony without evidence, and cutting my evidence. The arbitrator behaved as their advocate and ignored all evidence, proofs, and admissions of HOA violations, and basically copied incorrect facts from HOA attorney briefs, although I proved them wrong. The arbitrator colluded with HOA in fraud and added her own. For example, her ruling fails to mention that she cut out my counterclaim allegations before the arbitration hearings and then refused my exhibits into evidence on the first day of hearing. She prevented me from winning.
I exposed many financial scams and other misconduct of the HOA. The HOA promptly persecuted me and sued me for “unapproved modifications” to my unit 301, done 15 years and 4 owners before I bought the unit. Yet, there are 6 other units modified recently by Board members and supporters, fraudulently claimed to be approved. The lawsuit against me is a frivolous SLAPP lawsuit without evidence, in retaliation, and geared to steal my condo from me and to hide financial scam. The scam from 2016 to 2020 was at least $300,000.
The HOA is currently foreclosing on my unit. The presiding Judge on the appeal was recently a partner in the law firm defending the HOA. The arbitrator is a mediator at the Appellate Court. Other Judges on this case have proven conflict of interest. The total financial scam now amounts to about $1 million (and a lot more if we count the scams before 2016).
Below is the video that describes the building and the lawsuit. Further down, there are descriptions in words and image.