Does it bother anyone else that Moana Lutey is at the center of a multi-million-dollar whistleblower lawsuit along with Michelle McLean for blocking former Mayor Victorino from fulfilling an agreement he personally signed with Chris Salem?
I’ve now got the emails. All Victorino requested was a recorded inspection and determination from the Planning Director as to whether an SMA permit in Napili was properly fulfilled or not. McLean simply refused the Mayor’s request and Lutey lied about the Mayor not having the authority to make the request.
Why do so many bad things to block this one inspection? Because the fraud contained in this one SMA permit will show how Corporation Counsel conspired to combine bogus 3-lot-or-less infrastructure deferral agreements with fraudulent SMA permits to intentionally shift tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars in developer responsibilities onto taxpayers.
It doesn’t end there. Lutey is now part of an ethics complaint for influencing the County Auditor to suspend the audit on these same deferral agreements—an audit this Council unanimously approved back in 2018.
The Ethics Committee, which needs your financial support to remain independent of Corporation Counsel’s control, has agreed to a hearing to question the auditor and probably Lutey too.
Meanwhile, this Council is preparing to authorize nearly half a million dollars, with surely more to come, to pay KSG law firm to essentially protect Moana Lutey for her role in Chris Salem’s wrongful termination case.
After years of fighting Chris and Lutey’s lies to this counsel about it, Corporation Counsel had to step aside because of the conflicts of interest Lutey created—conflicts that Mayor Bissen likely recognized when he rejected her as his Corporation Counsel.
It says a lot about Council Chair Alice Lee’s priorities that both Michelle McLean and Lutey have been rewarded under her leadership. Does it bother anyone that Chair Lee skipped the standard public posting of both clerk positions on job websites, limiting the pool of candidates? That’s a rigged system. So are the intentionally unreadable full council minutes that chair Lee posts to the council’s website.
Now Maui taxpayers are paying Lutey more than the mayor for a job that doesn’t require a lawyer’s salary.
Hiring Moana Lutey as County Clerk is an embarrassment and an insult to every honest person on Maui."
Attached is a petition with 553 mostly local signatures calling for an investigation into Moana Lutey's crimes.
I think it's safe to say that NONE of these 553 signators think Moana Lutey should be County Clerk.
Does it bother anyone else that Moana Lutey is at the center of a multi-million-dollar whistleblower lawsuit along with Michelle McLean for blocking former Mayor Victorino from fulfilling an agreement he personally signed with Chris Salem?
I’ve now got the emails. All Victorino requested was a recorded inspection and determination from the Planning Director as to whether an SMA permit in Napili was properly fulfilled or not. McLean simply refused the Mayor’s request and Lutey lied about the Mayor not having the authority to make the request.
Why do so many bad things to block this one inspection? Because the fraud contained in this one SMA permit will show how Corporation Counsel conspired to combine bogus 3-lot-or-less infrastructure deferral agreements with fraudulent SMA permits to intentionally shift tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars in developer responsibilities onto taxpayers.
It doesn’t end there. Lutey is now part of an ethics complaint for influencing the County Auditor to suspend the audit on these same deferral agreements—an audit this Council unanimously approved back in 2018.
The Ethics Committee, which needs your financial support to remain independent of Corporation Counsel’s control, has agreed to a hearing to question the auditor and probably Lutey too.
Meanwhile, this Council is preparing to authorize nearly half a million dollars, with surely more to come, to pay KSG law firm to essentially protect Moana Lutey for her role in Chris Salem’s wrongful termination case.
After years of fighting Chris and Lutey’s lies to this counsel about it, Corporation Counsel had to step aside because of the conflicts of interest Lutey created—conflicts that Mayor Bissen likely recognized when he rejected her as his Corporation Counsel.
It says a lot about Council Chair Alice Lee’s priorities that both Michelle McLean and Lutey have been rewarded under her leadership. Does it bother anyone that Chair Lee skipped the standard public posting of both clerk positions on job websites, limiting the pool of candidates? That’s a rigged system. So are the intentionally unreadable full council minutes that chair Lee posts to the council’s website.
Now Maui taxpayers are paying Lutey more than the mayor for a job that doesn’t require a lawyer’s salary.
Hiring Moana Lutey as County Clerk is an embarrassment and an insult to every honest person on Maui."
Attached is a petition with 553 mostly local signatures calling for an investigation into Moana Lutey's crimes.
I think it's safe to say that NONE of these 553 signators think Moana Lutey should be County Clerk.
Maui County Council;
Please take into consideration the attached written testimony.
Respectfully;
Christopher Salem