When we experienced Kauai for the first time in 2010, I was so blown away – and found the experience so transformative – that I spent three days writing a blog post about it when we returned.
Just returned from a 2nd trip, but no way am I going to do that much writing again, even though I’ve got just as much to say :) Instead, just spent a day combing through 2,000 photos (mine, my wife’s and my father’s), and whittled down the set to around 200.
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A few highlights:
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It used to be a lot more stable here especially on Kauai, but this all changed in the 1990’s. Because of Kauai’s economic collapse negatively impacting the state, we had major exoduses not just off of Kauai, but the state. Most of the people who left were business owners and their employees, we had three exoduses on Kauai, first following Hurricane Iniki that struck on 9/11/1992 the other two as a result of the islands ongoing economic malaise.
Quite frankly if law enforcement including the FBI had done their job and taken a fugitive into custody and prosecuted him rather than let him become influential, much of it would have been avoidable.
This site will show history and influence, and court documents and excerpts of arrest records will contradict everything.
It shows the con mans influence, not just in state and local politics, but the Clinton White House, as well as when.
It also showed people connected to him in a real estate deal involving Steve Case of AOL, that was taking place when AOL was merging with Time Warner.