Moana Lutey's new 6-year term as County Clerk is being fast-tracked by Alice Lee to limit public response - which is typical of Alice.
It’s on the full Council agenda for Friday and has not even yet been heard by the GREAT committee, tomorrow. Testify against RESOLUTION 24-58 at 1:30 PM 10/21 in the GREAT Committee.
And again this Fri in the full Council at 10/25 at 9 am.
Link to our petition for a Criminal investigation of Lutey with 546 signatures. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/request-for-criminal
and similar request made to the state AG: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s26vh9pvqjrlozf79si54/Fishkin-Request-for-Criminal-Investigation.pdf?rlkey=5ve0glc3t50m28ugwwrrxj8rk&st=mhj6rxtu&dl=0
There are so many irregularities around Lutey’s hiring. Contrary to all other County jobs, the Clerk position was never posted to any employment website.
From the beginning, Lee rigged it as a reward for Lutey’s past crimes.
Before Bisssen dumped Lutey as Corp Counsel there was another Clerk candidate. Once Bissen trashed Lutey, Lee swapped the candidate in hand for Lutey with a massive bump in salary. Lutey earns more than the Mayor.
Lutey holds tremendous power today and our Council Members will be intimidated into voting for her unless we, the community, stand up and force her out.
FROM 2023:
Mayor Bissen’s removal of Moana Lutey and her sidekick Richelle Thomson from Corporation Counsel was a great step towards ending decades of institutionalized corruption on Maui.
As her push towards Fascism (Alice’s proposed new rules would give her exclusive authority to skip committees and public testimony on ANY legislation) expands, Alice Lee wants to hire Lutey and Thomson as County Clerk, and Deputy County Clerk.
With massive salary boosts over past Clerks (Lutey will earn more than the Mayor) to fill jobs that do not require a lawyer.
The County Clerk’s office already has access to lawyers at Corporation Counsel and Council Services whenever needed.
$156,982 yearly to Moana Lutey – 42.39% increase for Clerk.
$149,132 yearly to Richelle Thomson – 51.10% increase for Deputy.
$151,979 is the current salary for Maui County’s Mayor.
$162,552. is the current salary for Hawaii State Attorney General.
Remember that Moana Lutey lied to the Council repeatedly about an investigation into bribery accusations within the Planning Dept over Greg Brown’s abusive Naplii Hotel. The investigation she claimed happened NEVER TOOK PLACE!
Lutey also wasted millions of your tax dollars refusing to respect the Council’s unanimous vote to settle the Injection Wells case to instead take it to the Supreme Court, where she lost!
Oh yeah, and she lied to the Council in her confirmation hearing about her role in a contested SMA permit case.
All that and more, are why Lutey was removed as Director of Corporation Counsel.
Request for Criminal Investigation of Corporation Counsel Moana
Lutey, Corporation Counsel...
To: Federal Bureau of Investigations, Clare E. Connors, Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Michael Wheat, U.S. Prosecuting
Attorney, Kelly King, Maui County Council Chair, Keani Rawlins-Ferna…
The self-described “Dinosaurs” of Maui's Corporation Counsel are a team of litigators led by Moana Lutey who have been around long enough to be professionally compromised while serving past Mayors Alan Arakawa and James Apana.
By their dirty acts over the years, these lawyers are now so personally and professionally conflicted that they can no longer possibly serve the public’s best interest.
We citizens call for an investigation into Racketeering by these "Dinosaurs" and, at the very least, demand their removal from Maui's Office of Corporation Counsel.
Why is this important?
Maui County is a billion-dollar pawn being played by companies who profit by polluting, AKA “The Pollution Industry.”
The world will never forgive or forget that Maui's Sewage, partially treated and injected into underground wells, is what gave Trump’s deregulation-frenzied Supreme Court the opportunity to rule against EPA permits for all Injection Wells and cripple the Clean Water Act.
We can stop this by ridding Maui’s Corporation Counsel of the “Dinosaurs”. That’s the self-chosen name of the team of litigators led by Moana Lutey who have been around long enough to be professionally compromised while serving past Mayors Alan Arakawa and James Apana.
By their dirty acts over the years, these lawyers are now so personally conflicted that they can no longer possibly serve the public’s best interest.
Moana Lutey and Maui’s “Dinosaur Lawyers”:
* Inserted language into the Injection Well resolution that would give the Lawyers final say over county policy, robbing authority from both the Mayor and the County Council, in violation of legal norms, the County Charter and Rules for lawyers in Hawaii.
* Are actively blocking enforcement of SMA Permits that protect our shoreline, in violation of the U.S. Coastal Zone Management Act.
* Wrote secret developer agreements from 1974 to 2007 in order to shift financial burdens onto residents and is still blocking collection of over $100 million from developers by withholding and falsifying public records.
* Secretly violated the intent of the Council in 2015 in order to create a new way to shift financial burdens from developers to residents.
* Are actively concealing government liens which have been unlawfully placed on private properties in the County of Maui.
* Manufactured a fake RE tax to use as a weapon against a timeshare group.
* Are obstructing investigations into several instances of County fraud by lying to both the County Council and Mayor Victorino and have harmed and defamed private resident citizens who have exposed the County corruption.
* Are wasting millions for our tax dollars to take the Lahaina Injection Well case to the Supreme Court regardless that such regulatory changes belong in the legislature, not the courts, and many millions more in a series of frivolous litigations.
As citizens, our voices were significant contributing factors to the recent removal of bad actors such as David Goode, William Spence, J.D. Kim and especially Patrick Wong, who as Director of Corporation Counsel was overseeing the ongoing coverup of illegal acts by others in the County.
The "Dinosaurs" were all trained and compromised by Mr. Wong and are today actively continuing on with his legacy.