Greed and Intimidation in Hawaii: Ian Lind on the Murderous Miske Enterprise

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[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like something out of a movie, perhaps a film noir,

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_02]: but even though you've likely never heard this tale before, it is true.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Mike Miski was a seemingly successful businessman,

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: but he had secrets.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: In the shadows, he ran what has been referred to as the Miski Enterprise,

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_01]: which is a massive racketeering conspiracy involving drugs, intimidation, and murder.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_02]: He ordered a chemical attack on a nightclub that was in competition with him.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_02]: He was responsible for the brutal beating of an elderly accountant.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Miski's men viciously tortured and killed a young man Miski wrongly believed

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_02]: was responsible for the death of his own son.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_01]: What's most disturbing is that along the way,

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: he seems to have possibly enjoyed at least a measure of protection

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_01]: from law enforcement and political figures.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_02]: This did not happen in Chicago or New York in the 1930s or 40s.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It happened in contemporary Honolulu, Hawaii.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, Miski's six-month trial in that city only recently came to an end.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_01]: To get all the details about the case, including why it took so long to bring this man to

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_01]: justice, we turned to Ian Lind, a veteran reporter.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Ian is the expert on this story.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: He's been following it closer than anyone else.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_01]: We should note that we talked to Ian just as the trial was coming to an end,

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_01]: but before there was a verdict.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_02]: From reading his work, we recognized Ian would be the perfect person to tell us

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_02]: about this complicated story.

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_02]: He knows all of the details and players in a way that only a seasoned journalist does.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_01]: My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney.

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[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is Greed and Intimidation in Hawaii.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Ian Lind on the Murderous Miski Enterprise.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well can we start by having you tell us a little bit about yourself

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_02]: and some of your professional experience?

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Here, I'll try and give you the three minute version and sort of a three hour version.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I graduated from college at the end of the 60s,

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_03]: and it was, you know, Vietnam war time.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I started graduate school at the University of Hawaii

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_03]: and finished an MA in political science before the University of the University

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_03]: wasn't where I wanted to be.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_03]: I worked for several years doing peace education for the Quaker-based

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_03]: American Friends Service Committee here in Hawaii.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And then I stumbled into a job as the director for a small

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_03]: common cause office here in Hawaii.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And I worked for five legislative questions as their director and primary lobbyist

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_03]: at the State Capitol, where I learned much more about political science

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_03]: than I ever learned in my university career.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And one of the things I learned that was where I got my

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_03]: introduction to journalism because I figured out that the best place to be

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_03]: to lobby to change the public spew of political issues was

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_03]: to hang out in the newsroom at the basement of the State Capitol

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_03]: where reporters from the daily newspapers, the wire services,

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_03]: and the television stations all had little offices and all worked out of.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_03]: So that's how I figured out what reporters did,

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_03]: what the constraints were in their jobs, and what I could do as a public educator to

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_03]: guide them in what I thought were their right directions.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, after that we had a friend who had been in the legislature,

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_03]: ran for Congress and lost and ended up running for the city council.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_03]: My wife and I both got involved in his campaign, and when he was elected

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I went to work as the senior advisor ahead of his staff.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_03]: He then he went on several years later through serving Congress

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_03]: and came back to Hawaii in 2010 and was elected governor.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_03]: But after several years of that, he was going to go off to Congress,

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_03]: we parted ways, and I was looking for some honest work after seeing politics from

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_03]: that inside perspective. And so I started a small monthly newsletter about money and politics in

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Hawaii, and I had to develop a style being a monthly publication of digging more deeply into

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_03]: stories to find news that didn't appear in the mainstream media.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I learned that reporters are all overworked, they got all their assignments,

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_03]: they got a push things out, they're not going to be able to dig deeply into any stories.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_03]: And after three years publishing that I got a job offer from one of the

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Honolulu's two competing newspapers at that time, the Honolulu Scar Bulletin,

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_03]: to join them as an investigative reporter and I did. And I did that until a

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_03]: newspaper was sold in 2001. And since then following my nose and freelancing and

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_03]: doing other jobs and coming back around and being available for things like this story,

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_03]: which have been dragged on now for seven years in my life. So that's my brief story.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. I mean it's really cool to hear and as you said, this has been going on for

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: quite a long time. I'm just curious to, zooming back a little bit before we get

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_01]: into this case that we're going to talk to you about today, what is the Hawaii

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: crime beat like? What is it like covering cases in general there?

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not the person to ask. I mean Hawaii, like every place else that's suffered a dramatic decline

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_03]: in news coverage, especially by the daily newspapers. We now have one daily newspaper

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_03]: which is a shadow of either of the former competing papers. I like to use the example of

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: in the mid 1980s when I was working there at the state capitol, both daily newspapers had newsrooms.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_03]: They are each one with multiple reporters, usually two or three professional reporters and then several

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_03]: interns. Television stations all had camera crews there all day and reporters who could then

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_03]: grab down and pull them around. Wire services both had people based there at the capitol

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_03]: and today none of them are there on a full-time basis. There is no one, there is no news media

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_03]: that covers the capital as a regular beat or city hall for that matter.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That makes me so sad because that local journalism is so important everywhere and seems

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: like everywhere it's in decline. I mean that's honestly why what you're doing is so important

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_01]: and impressive because we feel like your coverage of this case just shows you why this stuff is so

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_02]: important. And I want to be honest until very recently, I had never even heard the name Mike

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Miski and I imagine that a good portion of our audience is in the same situation. So can we

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: start? Who is Mike Miski? Well let me start before his arrest and indictment four years ago.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_03]: He was best known as well, actually he wasn't known very well at all but his company,

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_03]: his primary company Kama Ainatermite and Test Control was very well known. This company

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_03]: had the strategy of heavy advertising. Every week there was a shopping newspaper,

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03]: you know free weekly shopper that's delivered to all the homes on Oahu and they would always

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_03]: stick a Kama Ainatermite card in there inviting you to look at their wonderful work and see their

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_03]: jobs and get your termite treatment. So they were, you know, Kama Ainatermite everybody knew

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Kama Ainatermite even if they didn't necessarily know its owner Mike Miski. He also had between

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_03]: 2011 and 2016 he afforded the nightclub in downtown Honolulu right across the

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_03]: street from the federal courthouse. Interesting little juxtaposition there and the nightclub became

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_03]: known as a well I made the news because of numerous fights or assaults on patrons by staff

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_03]: of the club and one that made headlines across the country he got in the beef with a NFL Pro Bowl

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_03]: who was here for the annual Pro Bowl at that time. Player and his brother and some friends were there

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_03]: in the club and somehow there was a dispute and Mike Miski ended up coming out and hitting the

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_03]: guy on the head with a champagne bottle knocking him out. His brother was allegedly tased

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_03]: and by the time he stopped there why everybody pointed fingers and said it was the players

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_03]: fault blah blah blah but Miski was arrested and because of the prominence of the victim that

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_03]: that case got a lot of play. So that you know up until then he in the public's eye I don't think

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_03]: he was visible at all but when I started looking at this case because of before the indictments

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_03]: it was immediately clear that there were he had quite a reputation on the street. Well don't go

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_03]: on when we get to how I got into the story that's maybe us the time to discuss that. For now let me

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_03]: start with the broad overview of the case. Miski and 10 co-defendants were invited in July 2020

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_03]: and they were charged under the federal RICO Act the Raqqaqir Influenced and Corrupt Organizations

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Act. That law had been passed in 1970 because federal prosecutors had realized they had no

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_03]: effective means to go after mafia leaders in the big US cities because you know it was always somebody

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_03]: down on the bottom killed Joe Samoa or killed a public citizen over here and they could

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_03]: charge and convict those people but there was another gangster behind them and the guys who

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_03]: called the shots up on the top of the mafia chain they couldn't be prosecuted. So Congress

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: adopted RICO to give federal prosecutors tools to do that and among other things it changes the

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_03]: rules of evidence once they can establish that a Raqqaqirian enterprise existed then those who

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_03]: were part of this conspiracy that made up an enterprise their statements could be used

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_03]: and bypassed the normal hearsay limits. So if you were a conspiracy you said well this

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_03]: other consumer told me that Bob said this or Mike said this suddenly that can become get over the

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_03]: barriers to hearsay and be brought into evidence and trial and that's what allowed has allowed

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_03]: the federal government to crack down now over the last 50 years on organized crime activities

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_03]: that's the cards that are that's the overall charge that are faced with it the Raqqaqirian

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_03]: conspiracy case. The government alleges that Missy and this full group of associates many of whom

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_03]: are not actually charged were part of this organization that was involved in a laundry

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_03]: list of types of crimes that qualify as Raqqaqirian and government says this organization was

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_03]: controlled and directed by Mike Missy either using his legitimate businesses as criminal tools

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_03]: or using them as a cover for the criminal activities and so that's the way they tied up

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: this case as an enterprise. At the time of that indictment it was also made public that

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Missy and a second man had been charged in a sealed grand jury indictment a year earlier

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_03]: and in that case they were charged with conspiring to purchase more than five kilos of cocaine

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_03]: from a cartel related group in the Los Angeles area and the deal had been broken up two people were

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: sent from Honolulu to make the buy Missy allegedly put up the money for that buy but it turned out

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_03]: that the group they were buying from was under surveillance by the federal drug agency and

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_03]: when they made their sayings and were be driven with their drugs back to the San Francisco

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_03]: airport law enforcement swept in they were busted the drugs and the money were seized

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_03]: and the two guys were eventually released because they were not in the car with the drugs or the

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_03]: money and they came back and that in that case that happened in 2014 and the theft of limitations

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_03]: were getting ready to run out so they had to get that indictment in place but it

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_03]: remained sealed for a year until the second rackaturing indictment came down now a lot of people

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_03]: wonder what made this different from other big crime cases in the past so what he's had a history

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_03]: of local crime groups that carved up the territory here splitting up the different

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_03]: primary sources of illegal income you know dambling drugs prostitution extortion

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_03]: money laundering usually in a way these were like neighborhood or community based groups

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_03]: usually a charismatic but cold-blooded killer as a as a leader and they competed among themselves

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_03]: or they carved up the territory so there could be some periods of peace and sometimes had to

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_03]: jockey for control and influence with either mainland groups coming in either the mafia

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_03]: in the earlier days or now representatives of various cartels coming in from the mainland

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_03]: or from foreign countries japanese yakuza were a big presence here in the 90s 90s was probably

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_03]: during the big heyday of japanese investment when miski came along what the government in

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_03]: ledges was something very different miski himself although he has a violent reputation

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_03]: and wasn't really in the evidence has come out of the trial he wasn't really a the violent guy

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_03]: he hired guys to do his violence so he had violent attitude and violent breaths when I came down to

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_03]: you know punching punch somebody out or pulling the trigger he wasn't the one who did it and

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_03]: and so he had an organization that were he operated in the safe safety of

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_03]: his business enterprises and directed other people apparently or allegedly to do his crimes

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_03]: the case also was I guess pushed along because it the investigation or the most recent

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_03]: investigation that led to the indictment was was being conducted at the same time that federal

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_03]: authorities were probing the homeludal police department specifically charging the police chief

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_03]: and his wife who was a ranking city prosecutor charging them with illegally using a highly placed

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_03]: specialized unit that operated under the chief's direct control to frame a family member his

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_03]: wife's uncle who was in the beef with with the chief's wife over his grandmother's money so pause on

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[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_03]: so the police chief's uncle or the wife's uncle had been arrested for allegedly stealing the police

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_03]: chief's mailbox in order to to steal legal documents related to his he had a case showing

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_03]: he sued the wife of the police chief for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her grandmother

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_03]: so when his case went to trial they took it to federal court because with that the mailbox

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_03]: the federal defender was able to produce evidence showing that the case was false but

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_03]: the police had filed false reports they destroyed evidence that they'd curge it themselves and

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_03]: testimony and the case was eventually declared a mistrial almost immediately the defense made

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_03]: available to the u.s attorney all of their evidence or first to the judge excuse me and the judge

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_03]: forwarded it to the u.s attorney the fbi stepped in when the latest investigation of miski had

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_03]: started that was in march 2014 and by december 2014 the fbi was getting this case charging police

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_03]: conspiracy the problem that hosted them of course was fbi would normally work in convention with

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_03]: the police department criminal intelligence division they would form a joint task force to pursue these

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_03]: kind of complicated cases in this case they couldn't do that because at least not once this

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_03]: investigation of the chief started because the chief and miski's relationship to the police

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_03]: department were all under investigation at the same time and there were it turned out there

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_03]: were crossovers between the investigation of mike miski and his alleged criminal organization

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_03]: and the prosecutor's office in one case miski was stopped in a traffic incident for talking

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_03]: on his cell phone while he was driving and instead of pulling over like he was supposed to he drove off

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_03]: but before he drove off he was recognized by the police officer who was doing the ticketing

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_03]: they eventually tracked him down told him he was he had to come in and he was going to be cited

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_03]: and within 24 hours or 36 hours the prosecutor's office was intervening the whites of the

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_03]: police chief was calling the officer to tell him stand down you can't do this so mr miski

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_03]: is very important in an investigation we're doing blah blah blah that was again later pursued by a

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: second investigator within the prosecutor's office bringing that information to the officer telling him

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_03]: stand down get away and let the stall later not long back was later months later a federal

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_03]: asian applying for a search warrant looked at that said he looked at that situation

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_03]: contacted other federal agencies and found there was no investigation of the kind that the prosecutor's

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_03]: office had been referring to one that would have given miski some kind of special status

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_03]: has never been explained why why the prosecutor's office intervened on his behalf and why the

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_03]: police chief's wife herself under investigation at that time intervened on his behalf but the

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_03]: street rumors were and continue to be that at some point along the way uh miski had had a personal

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_03]: relationship with the police chief's wife who was also disclosed to have been addicted to painkiller

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: drugs opioids for a number of years and giving some credence to the idea that well his access

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_03]: to drug networks may have put him made him a valuable person to her at some point and vice

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_03]: versa but we don't know that's never been that's never been sorted out but it complicated this case

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_03]: and made it stand out against just the run of the mill drug case that you might have

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: that might involve a bunch of people i feel like if i read a novel or like watched a tv show

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: where this plot happened i would be like this is a little bit over the top and maybe not super

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_01]: realistic so it's truly insane like and i'm curious like you know you're you're doing such a great job

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_01]: telling this story explaining the story to your readers and how did you come to start that i mean

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_01]: how did you get into the story and what that what has that process been like for you okay hang on

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_03]: fascinating to you bold again here so in 2015 just before Thanksgiving

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Mike miski's son and his best friend were trying out a 20-year-old honda that that miski's son

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_03]: talib had purchased and they were on the windward side of war who next to a stopping center in

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_03]: kaniohi they put the car out for a spin see see what it could do they said and they they raced down

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_03]: towards the ocean and came racing back and they got through an intersection right alongside the

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_03]: shopping center doing about 93 miles an hour according to the subsequent re-analysis of the scene

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_03]: and hit a truck that was turning left in front of them at the stop light both both young men

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_03]: were critically injured miski's son was trapped in the driver's seat in the crash and he could not

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_03]: be removed until the fire department came and cut him out of the car both boys almost died

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_03]: kaleb's good friend john frazier though recovered was eventually released from the hospital

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_03]: but kaleb miski four months or so after the accident died of his in an infection that resulted

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_03]: from his injuries in the crash he died in march of 2016 and later that year miski in advance of the

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: holiday season took over a tree in the public park along the ocean near his home in hoaikai

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_03]: and wrapped this tree in lights and lit lit the tree up as what he said was a memorial to his son

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_03]: it was done of course in a public park on the public street without a permit

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and he was cited for that call to take it down and he eventually did take it down however

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_03]: he then started lobbying for a permit to polite the same tree in 2017 the city was not thrilled

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_03]: about this the parks department said look we know we got millions of trees and our city parks

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: around the island we can't just let you know people go roll them decide they're gonna do this or

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_03]: that to a tree because they want to have a memorial you know you can kill a tree the lights are not

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_03]: good for the tree according to the tree experts and so the city was not cooperating in giving out

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_03]: the permit but miski garnered some political supporters including some very well-placed ones

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_03]: and convinced a member of the city council they introduced a bill that would allow a memorial

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_03]: like this to happen and the threat was from the member of the city council if the tree permit

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_03]: wasn't given to miski on a special basis he would push through this bill so that anyone could do

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_03]: this in any park at any free and the city finally backed down and they killed the bill

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_03]: and missing out his permit or was in the process of getting his permit and that that's when it became

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_03]: public as this they started processing his permit and questions began began to be raised at the

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_03]: community level when what's going on is this going to happen again this year what happened

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_03]: to last year's lights and I started getting calls from several people when the issue was raised

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_03]: at a neighborhood board on the little hazard system of neighborhood boards that are supposed

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_03]: to channel public input up into the city administration on the city council it was after

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_03]: getting complaints about the permit being routed outside of the normal channels to avoid having to

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_03]: get community feedback and input that's when I got involved and started making calls

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_03]: and quickly learned that people were very reluctant to talk about anything about

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Mike Mousty certainly not on the record because everyone said you know he's a he has a violent

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_03]: reputation always a dangerous guy you know you know of course I didn't know at the time but

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_03]: I wrote a story about the lights and later got access to internal emails at the city that showed

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_03]: that even while he was getting his permit subject to certain conditions he was telling them that

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_03]: he wasn't going to abide by their conditions and there was nothing they could do about it because

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_03]: if they didn't let him do what he wanted to do he'd have the tree cut down and the city again

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_03]: back down didn't do anything he got his permits but that that was how I got involved and at that

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_03]: time I was doing the back rounding on him and his businesses and so when several years later

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_03]: the indictments came down I had gotten way ahead of the story by I mean tracked through all the

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_03]: documents I could find about these businesses and their their track records well that's on it

[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_03]: that's how I got into it because I was ahead of the game and because that's the kind of story

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I like a complex document rich crime to be looking at it was it was it's been a dream for me to

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_03]: begin interest for so long they've now disclosed there were four prior investigations in which

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Misty was one of the targets uh disarming back in 1998 when there was a federal takedown of

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_03]: a large drug organization led by Misty's older cousin Craig divester divester was eventually

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_03]: sentenced to 25 years for drug trafficking Misty at that time was just a was a 20-something kid

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_03]: who was I was told was a kind of a golfer in his cousin's organization uh however that was

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_03]: followed up in 2006 there was a labor department and DEA investigation of labor racketeering

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_03]: in the film industry which led to several convictions Misty had been named as a

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_03]: parent um map dealer in that investigation but was never you know he was not he estates about charges

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_03]: uh in 2008 something targeted more directly the neighborhood he was from Waimanalo area of Oahu

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_03]: and they called it the operation Waimanalo blue this out through a popular local song

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_03]: he stated through that although in that case the government began subpoenaing on obtaining

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_03]: tax records and business records accounting records from his story of operation so we

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_03]: know the lease by 2008 or so he so well knew that he was under investigation because they were

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_03]: showing up you know and taking off his business records in 2013 there was a

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_03]: separate coast guard investigation of drugs smuggling grew a tuna boat long-line tuna boat that he had

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_03]: purchased in 2010 and the boat was it was put on their surveillance and was eventually

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_03]: raided and searched when it entered port in Honolulu in the summer of I think 2013

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_03]: no no drugs were found although a witness said that their routine was to bring the drugs

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_03]: from the mainland on the ship and then say a number of miles off the island of Oahu

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_03]: dump the drugs into the ocean with a lotator beacon and then have other people come from shore

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_03]: and pick it up that's not been proven that hasn't been evidence hasn't been presented in the case

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_03]: but that was described in search warrants filed along the way and publicly disclosed

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_03]: during the trial the current investigation started in the March 2014 so it was once before

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_03]: the the break and the case involving the police chief and his life but overall this the case

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_03]: has involved over these multiple investigations an extraordinary amount of evidence oh boy you

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_03]: know the reason why I think and it took three and a half years to get the case to Toronto was

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_03]: just the sheer amount of evidence and the time it took to process that evidence and make it available

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_03]: to the defendants in the process of discovery data identified millions literally more than two

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_03]: million pages of document business records reports and and files from the prior investigations

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_03]: terabytes of data I mean I don't mean two or three terabytes we're talking like 80 terabytes

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_03]: of data photos surveillance videos phone extractions on business records you name it

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_03]: it's been described as certainly the largest case in terms of of the massive evidence ever handled in

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_03]: the in the federal district in Hawaii and probably in the federal district on the west coast as well

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_03]: so it's been an extraordinary lengthy process that for a document reporter like it's even though

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_03]: we've only seen two percent of the of the available records it's still been document rich and that's

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_02]: made the reporting much more comprehensive it's amazing how complicated this story is and how many

[00:34:00] [SPEAKER_02]: bits and pieces of it kind of do jump out one thing that kind of caught my eye and I think

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_02]: it's got a lot of attention is the the story of Jonathan Frazier can you tell us about what happened

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_03]: to him so after Caleb's death in March 2016 Mike Missy was privately blaming Jonathan Frazier who

[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_03]: had been in the act you know in the accident as well and stating his belief that Frazier had

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_03]: been the driver of the car even though there wasn't a shred of evidence that Frazier was

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_03]: the driver and there was overwhelming evidence from the reports of the emergency personnel on the

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_03]: scene the hospital reports the police reports witness reports people who went to the car and

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_03]: prompt to Caleb while he was trapped in the driver's seat appearing as witnesses that apparently

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_03]: didn't faze Missy who blamed Frazier for the death it's a lead the government alleges and

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_03]: there's been some testimony to this effect that Missy then said he wanted Frazier killed

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_03]: his closest associates have testified that they began making plans and collecting materials that

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_03]: could be used in killing one we don't really know what happened there's several different stories

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_03]: but on July 30th 2016 just a few months after Caleb's death Johnny Frazier's girlfriend and

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Caleb's wife left the apartment where they were living together has been living together now for

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_03]: just a couple of weeks in the apartment paid for and rented by Mike Missy his wife and Frazier's

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_03]: girlfriend went off for a day in a spa on the other side of the island Frazier was left home

[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_03]: alone and at the end of the day he was gone not a trace not a trace of him since and he

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_03]: is presumed to have been killed as part of this act of retribution it was his death that kind of gave

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_03]: new new lives to the federal investigation it gave a new focus they'd been previously focusing on

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_03]: drugs gambling extortion racketeering but now they had a murder case although a difficult

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_03]: murder case because of one of those nobody murder cases he was charged in a 22 count

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_03]: federal indictment five of those charges only named Missy and they and those five were related to the

[00:36:30] [SPEAKER_03]: disappearance and death of Johnny Frazier but other 22 other other accounts they involved assaults

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_03]: drug dealing use of weapons armed robberies just a variety of acts along with bank fraud

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_03]: and obstruction of justice there were two obstructions of justice charges added

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_03]: after the original indictment because in preparing he knew he was going to be indicted and they

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_03]: started collecting he and his attorney started collecting character reference letters two years

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_03]: before the those indictments came down it turned out that some of those character reference

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_03]: others were fraudulent the investigation was well underway they'd already been charged

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_03]: when the FBI found the witnesses and obtained research warrants the email records showing how

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_03]: how they manufactured fraudulent letters and signed people's names without their knowledge

[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_03]: and submitted those in court after the after Missy was arrested and his attorneys sought to

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_03]: have him released on bond so that added another twist the thing that comes through so clearly is

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_03]: again although there's no not much evidence that he personally was roughing people up although

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_03]: in a few instances he did do that but he was good at directing his people and he had several

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_03]: people on call to carry out assaults when when he directed them um and when one when one had

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_03]: belief when one got put in jail he hired somebody else to do it but he always had somebody

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_03]: on hand to do that there are just a few examples on that have been described in detail in the trial

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_03]: for example he had a bartender at his club who he suspected of skimming from the till

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_03]: at his bar and so one day he got to the club and he he told the guy look i know you used to work

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_03]: for a company that was in following point of sale computer systems i'm trying to buy the

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_03]: system from another club that's drawn out of business i'd like to come look at the look at

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_03]: the equipment and give me an opinion of it so the guys that takes off from work i'm going with the

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_03]: boss you know and they got in the car and he knew something was wrong because his testimony was that

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_03]: he found himself between two refrigerated sized men and we was wedged in the middle they drove

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_03]: off drove through downtown drove out onto sand island a little an industrial area on one side of

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_03]: formula harbor drove to a remote part of sand island where there were no lights good but he was

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_03]: walked down to the pan along the water in the headlights of their fvb and three guys mischievous

[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_03]: he directed these guys well first mischievous said you only ten thousand dollars oh my god

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_03]: you're crazy i don't have ten thousand well and then he said if you're not going to pay me

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_03]: and he directed the guys to beat him and they beat him mercilessly they then left leaving him to find

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_03]: his way back to civilization find the phone he eventually lost an eye as a result of that beating

[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_03]: and but was so afraid they told him that they knew where he lived they knew where his girlfriend

[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_03]: worked and if he if he went to the police he was in trouble so he didn't go to the police

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_03]: then not until later and like most of the victims was terrified another case described the victim

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_03]: testified he had worked for a rival or competing termite company and in his sales book he had

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_03]: derogatory information about kama on the termite misty's firm somebody on misty's sales staff

[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_03]: learned about this book i'm there but they were as they say in hawaii clock and stink about his company

[00:40:29] [SPEAKER_03]: to to prospective clients so one day the salesman for the other company got a call somebody wanted

[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_03]: to meet him about a termite job he went to a home and there he was jumped by several people

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_03]: apparently including misty who again he was beaten very badly and told don't mess with

[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_03]: comma i not termite you know that was basically the method in terms of another violent incident we

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_01]: when we were reading your articles we saw something about the kidnapping of a 78 year old accountant

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_03]: in hamlet lu lu can you tell us a bit about that oh man yeah these are all complicated so

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_03]: turns out that this accountant had been an invested in a company run by i guess a friend

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_03]: of yours and that had company had started about 2001 2002 somewhere in there and they were going to

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_03]: build or they'd sort of a factory to build deal building supplies so the homes and buildings and

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_03]: a life could be constructed that would be immune from termite damage so an idea and they

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_03]: functioned for about 10 years before the company finally went under the person who was the

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_03]: president of the company was an accountant himself and it seems that the 78 year old accountant who had

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_03]: loaned him money thought his friend was hiding the money from him and then i was doing a bust out

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_03]: of the company there wasn't a legitimate bankruptcy so he complained to his daughter his daughter

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_03]: knew Preston Kimoto who was a manager at comma i not termite and one of misty's insiders

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_03]: she met with Kimoto Kimoto testified that he then asked missy for permission or for

[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_03]: for assistance in doing something to help his friend well the next thing Kimoto knew according

[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_03]: to his testimony was another very close associate of miskeeds and the second man kidnapped

[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_03]: the the accountant at gunpoint put a bag on his head beat him drove him around um threatening

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_03]: to kill him for several hours before they were convinced that the guy was telling the truth i don't

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_03]: have the money so i don't have any money so late in the day they had to ask what to do

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_03]: and they contacted Kimoto at comma and a termite missy arrived they all were seen going into the

[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_03]: building they were then told i guess you have to release them so they they then left and released

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_03]: but there was you know documented evidence showing the contacts with misty their contacts

[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_03]: are meeting at his offices and the identification of uh and testimony not only of the victim

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_03]: but the people who said it in motion including the daughter who had made the connection to

[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Kimoto this while the trial was going on this all became very public because president Kimoto

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_03]: then went and threatened to spend the dollar and told her we know where you're totally go to school

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_03]: we know you know we know where you live don't talk to the FBI tell them nothing and at this

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_03]: point of course she was already being interviewed by the FBI and he ended up being um re arrested

[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_03]: and charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering um but it put many more details

[00:44:11] [SPEAKER_03]: about this particular kidnap incident into the public record than we've had before

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_03]: so yeah that was a very unusual one and again complicated but um and again misty staying

[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_03]: at arms length but very much involved allegedly in the in the planning and direction of this

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_02]: operation yeah that was another interesting one and another one that caught my eye was uh the

[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_03]: incident of the Ginza nightclub can you tell us about that okay uh so misty's own nightclub ended up

[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_03]: running down in late 2016 because of the series of assaults and criminal cases and

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_03]: now liquor commission citations that had come out of those they reopened however uh very quickly

[00:45:05] [SPEAKER_03]: under a new name of the encore encore nightclub but the nightclub was not doing well and had a

[00:45:11] [SPEAKER_03]: lot of competition and according to the indictment there were two successive evenings and I believe

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_03]: was March 2017 when a chemical agent of some kind was released within competing nightclubs

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_03]: first one night first Friday night then one the next one on saturday night which

[00:45:39] [SPEAKER_03]: acted something like tear gas apparently sent everyone screaming and running for the exit

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_03]: several of the people who were involved in those actually I think everybody involved

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_03]: who was actually involved hands on with those the release of those chemicals

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_03]: eventually pleaded guilty and told their stories the chemical apparently was a thing called

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_03]: chloropichron which is used as a um a signal during the fumigation of homes here at Hawaii

[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_03]: and I guess and elsewhere the primary chemical they use is odorless tasteless you can't smell it

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_03]: so in order to have people know you don't go into don't open the scent and go in they they mix

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_03]: chloropichron in it which is like a tear gas um so the chemical came from misty's come on the

[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_03]: termite they went to the home of his half brother John Stansel in Waimanalo picked up a vial

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_03]: or a bottle with chloropichron were directed to go to the clubs wait when fell around midnight

[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_03]: when clubs were really busy and go in and then pour the substance on the floors forcing the

[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_03]: clubs to be evacuated the government produced elements chloropichron during rule one was used

[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_03]: as a weapon of war was used to clear the trenches and force force soldiers out where they

[00:47:08] [SPEAKER_03]: could be re-killed down on the battlefield it's one of those chemicals that is regulated by an

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_03]: international convention on chemical weapons it can according to testimony of a FBI expert

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_03]: in the trial it can within 10 to 20 seconds incapacitating so it's they were lucky that no

[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_03]: one was killed they were lucky that no one was seriously injured as a result a police officer who

[00:47:39] [SPEAKER_03]: later bought the car driven by two of misci's associates and they had the leftover liquid in

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_03]: our in a bottle in the car when they were stopped they also had drugs and drug power

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_03]: finalia and hand and weapons but they were arrested materials that were seized were taken

[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_03]: to the police station and they were in a room when one of the officers you know what's in this bottle

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_03]: and took the cap off and was immediately paralyzed by the fumes he testified he couldn't inhale he

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_03]: couldn't exhale he couldn't breathe others you know dragged him out of the room it took

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_03]: several hours before he got you know before he got past the symptoms but he described it as just

[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_03]: a terribly frightening incident misci's defense has tried to minimize the whole those incidents

[00:48:38] [SPEAKER_03]: by saying well you know no one was no one was it was killed no one was injured there's no one

[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_03]: lasting lasting damage but the fact remains that there's a controlled chemical listed as a potential

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_03]: secondary class of warfare weapons I'm told that this is one of the few cases anywhere in the

[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_03]: country where they've actually although similar incidents have happened they're usually charged

[00:49:05] [SPEAKER_03]: on the some other crime in this case they're charged with the use of a chemical weapon

[00:49:10] [SPEAKER_03]: and conspiracy to use a chemical weapon and as I say they're the driver

[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_03]: the people who actually took the chemical scent of the likewise will distribute with them they've

[00:49:23] [SPEAKER_03]: all pleaded guilty and several of them testified in the trial for one of the interesting things

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_03]: is but the charges or a mix of direct out direct charges murder Jonathan Frazier

[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_03]: but kidnapping and found that the phrase relating to his death mixed with accompanies artist conspiracy

[00:49:44] [SPEAKER_03]: to murder of Jonathan Frazier conspiracy or kid to kidnap leading to the murder of Jonathan Frazier

[00:49:52] [SPEAKER_03]: and the in a conspiracy case or conspiracy charge it doesn't really matter whether the

[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_03]: actual crime ever happened you don't have to prove that there was a murder you don't have

[00:50:04] [SPEAKER_03]: to prove that someone was killed you don't need a body because the in the conspiracy case

[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_03]: the crime is the agreement to do it if you if several one or more people get together and

[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_03]: agree we're going to do this and you're going to do that you're going to do that

[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_03]: that's the crime not the murder itself so my inclination that for sitting people in the

[00:50:27] [SPEAKER_03]: trial reading that reports to a trial testimony it may be difficult not impossible maybe difficult

[00:50:36] [SPEAKER_03]: for prosecutors to get those murder and kidnapping convictions on the direct substance in charge

[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_03]: there's just so many unknowns from the evidence of so circumstantial but the evidence is much

[00:50:51] [SPEAKER_03]: more direct that there was a conspiracy to do those things and that miski was part of those

[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_03]: conspiracies at it although it's told in the testimony of those involved it's backed up by

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_03]: hundreds of exhibit of telephone calls text messages what's that text messages supposedly

[00:51:12] [SPEAKER_03]: encrypted but but recovered on cell phones from hundreds of cell phone seized in the from all

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_01]: the various people involved in this case we've talked a little bit about i wanted to ask you about

[00:51:24] [SPEAKER_01]: this because we've talked a little bit about miski's connections to people within the police

[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and then government agencies but we'd be very curious to know more about his connections or

[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_01]: alleged connections with the local 665 of the international alliance of theatrical stage

[00:51:39] [SPEAKER_01]: employees and then also randomly his connection to the film king kong skull island for a year

[00:51:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Hawaii's film industry has been a center of allegations of criminal activity control of

[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_03]: of the film unions by organized crime figures so along the way somewhere early at least 15

[00:52:07] [SPEAKER_03]: more than 15 years ago uh or around maybe 15 years ago miski was able to get the job

[00:52:15] [SPEAKER_03]: on the team sir a youth film unit which assigned drivers for the various film production companies

[00:52:25] [SPEAKER_03]: and in at least one case he appears on the credits for that the film you're mentioning the

[00:52:30] [SPEAKER_03]: kong film as a driver and reportedly he was driving for john goodman in that film as i recall

[00:52:39] [SPEAKER_03]: but he wasn't he wasn't the only alleged criminal involved in the team sir unit at that time

[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_03]: there were out there and there were in the subsequent investigation that started in 2008

[00:52:54] [SPEAKER_03]: there were several people who were charged with drug crimes as a result or who were involved in the

[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_03]: film industry on the stagehand side i actually the sage hand union one of miski's key associate

[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_03]: norman a cowl was a member of the executive board of the local i actually union at the time

[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_03]: of their indictment a cowl claims he's never met miski but that he knew he was part of this

[00:53:24] [SPEAKER_03]: group that were associated with miski and they they bought and sold drugs they engaged in armed

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_03]: robberies they had a a series of robberies of other drug dealers they would take either their money

[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_03]: or their drugs or both and they felt that they were safe from retaliation because everyone knew

[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_03]: they were part of miski's organization then you don't through with miski's organization

[00:53:49] [SPEAKER_03]: so they were as the government kept saying they were encouraged and emboldened by their

[00:53:55] [SPEAKER_03]: association with miski even though miski wasn't part of these drug activities

[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_03]: each one of the individual drug activities so miski also was able to place people into

[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_03]: those high paying film industry jobs and so there's been testimony during the trial of

[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_03]: a number of people he was able to put in put in those jobs one of them who testified that

[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_03]: he knew that miski got him this good paying job because he wanted him to know where he would be

[00:54:26] [SPEAKER_03]: so that miski could go to him and ask for assistance when he needed criminal things done

[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_03]: when his dirty work needed to be done he had people fast who owed him and would be available

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_03]: to him the same thing happened he had a close association with an iow w u longshoreman official

[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_03]: on the docks in hunlelu and he was able to place again a number of his associates in high paying

[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_03]: steward or jobs getting them at the up to the top of the union list to replace when robber

[00:54:59] [SPEAKER_03]: openings happened and it was his contact lost an election and was moved out of the position

[00:55:08] [SPEAKER_03]: where he could help him and miski was in sense he's charged with putting out a contract on another

[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_03]: person who we thought was cooperating with the police and then the process of testimony they've

[00:55:19] [SPEAKER_03]: uncovered and have elicited testimony about his attempt to kill a an iow w u official who was

[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_03]: now blocking him from getting his people into jobs and several people have testified they took

[00:55:33] [SPEAKER_03]: part they put a gps trapper on the union official's car they followed him all over town to get his patterns

[00:55:39] [SPEAKER_03]: and they made two attempts to shoot him once out of uh when he came out of a plate one restaurant in

[00:55:46] [SPEAKER_03]: that same sand island industrial area uh they were norman a pal from the state trans union

[00:55:53] [SPEAKER_03]: was there with his governor's back when he was called off the last minute because

[00:55:58] [SPEAKER_03]: one of the other people told him we couldn't get the gps off the car we can't can't do it now

[00:56:04] [SPEAKER_03]: so they canceled bowen they made another attempt to kill the union official outside his condominium

[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_03]: that one also failed and eventually they apparently called off that hit but that was one of the

[00:56:17] [SPEAKER_03]: i think that was one of the things the labor department was tracking of the access to

[00:56:26] [SPEAKER_03]: union jobs in most different different industries now sieve abhorring and the film industry by misty

[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_03]: and their month i'm guessing he wasn't the only one organized time figure with access of that time

[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_01]: can i just say this all sounds like something out of like a noir film i mean you know like union

[00:56:45] [SPEAKER_01]: officials i mean like i'm not even being facetious it's really shocking and it's really

[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_02]: interesting me all of these stories you're telling us are so gripping how exactly did this guy manage

[00:56:56] [SPEAKER_02]: to operate so long without facing serious legal repercussions i guess we're all asking ourselves

[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_03]: the same question starting with the allegations or the intervention by those possible ranking

[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_03]: prosecutor that police's wife getting trying to get misty released from our traffic thing

[00:57:16] [SPEAKER_03]: there there are rumors that at some point in his career he had been a he'd been an fbi snitch

[00:57:24] [SPEAKER_03]: he'd been a source about other other drug dealers when he was dealing with drugs and whether that

[00:57:32] [SPEAKER_03]: true we don't know but i spoke with one former u.s attorney who had been in office during

[00:57:39] [SPEAKER_03]: a probably the period that this would have been involved in it he wouldn't answer directly but said

[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_03]: well it wouldn't it wouldn't be unusual for someone on their way out to be snitching on those

[00:57:53] [SPEAKER_03]: whose positions they wanted to take over so we don't know if that if that played a role

[00:57:59] [SPEAKER_03]: in here one case i can think of that was testified about one of misty's other little business

[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_03]: deals on the side was he's from the company that was licensed as a used car dealer and

[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_03]: they he would attend wholesale auctions that were limited only to dealers and would go go to

[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_03]: these auctions and in order for you'd buy old cars junk or cars that then he would resell or use

[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_03]: for other purposes and when people bid against him he would threaten them and when that didn't

[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_03]: work he several cases were testified about that he took the people out and beat them up

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_03]: and had them beaten up by this associate in one of those cases the police were called

[00:58:45] [SPEAKER_03]: and the victim was there called he called the police to miss his office saying i could

[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_03]: demify the guy who was involved in beating me up and the police came and the first the

[00:58:56] [SPEAKER_03]: officers on the scene apparently were going into misty high fiving with misty and slacking him on the

[00:59:02] [SPEAKER_03]: back and they were all friendly but the victim got the clearer clear message he was not going to get

[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_03]: the police to listen to his story that was repeated a couple of times not enough to know

[00:59:16] [SPEAKER_03]: to think that this was like the normal thing but enough to know that misty had friends from

[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_03]: the police department and he always he always told people if you say anything i'll know because i have

[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_03]: people inside the department so i don't know you know it's never it wasn't a focus of of the case

[00:59:39] [SPEAKER_03]: there was some testimony overlapping on that problem you know we just don't know

[00:59:45] [SPEAKER_03]: my suspicion is there were people in high places who he could provide access to drugs to

[00:59:53] [SPEAKER_03]: you know recreational drugs whether they were in business or in politics misty did not do the

[01:00:00] [SPEAKER_03]: normal thing he did not use his companies to make campaign contributions he didn't appear

[01:00:07] [SPEAKER_03]: often at you know political gatherings where you might think he would be to have knob and

[01:00:13] [SPEAKER_03]: and gain influence so the nature of his influence really isn't clear you know the larger influence in

[01:00:23] [SPEAKER_03]: the business world and political world there's lots of rumors but nothing's really come together

[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_03]: out of all this massive evidence but one thing's one thing you come away with i realize for the

[01:00:36] [SPEAKER_03]: public the child is not going to answer the public's question we want to know things like that

[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_03]: were the police involved does did he have business backing where politicians did he have politicians

[01:00:48] [SPEAKER_03]: on call with that council for the council member was he threatened that he'd go along with us because

[01:00:54] [SPEAKER_03]: he was afraid all those things are off limits because you get in the criminal court and it's

[01:01:01] [SPEAKER_03]: you're only going to hear about evidence that's directly related did he do this or not did he do

[01:01:08] [SPEAKER_03]: this or not much of the background was declared basically off limits got you know rulings that

[01:01:14] [SPEAKER_03]: evidence of fire certain prior crimes and certain people willing to testify about for example

[01:01:21] [SPEAKER_03]: one of misty's early mentors when he was like 20 20 years old or so who was teaching him the

[01:01:28] [SPEAKER_03]: ropes of both drug dealing and stealing cars suddenly disappeared and was rumored to have been

[01:01:35] [SPEAKER_03]: killed in a drug related murder you know at least some of the street rumors put misty at the scene

[01:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: among a group that that carried out this crime well that that was declared no you can't bring

[01:01:49] [SPEAKER_03]: that evidence and you can't bring those people into testify because that was like several years

[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_03]: before the alleged conspiracy that's charged and the end of space the started so the same way

[01:02:03] [SPEAKER_03]: infiltration or corruption of the police instant probably the charges in the case

[01:02:07] [SPEAKER_03]: we're not going to hear it hear that evidence coming out in this trial it's very troubling

[01:02:13] [SPEAKER_01]: because as you said and people there want answers they want to know how how deep did

[01:02:17] [SPEAKER_01]: this thing go but the way our system works that's that's not going to be possible if

[01:02:21] [SPEAKER_01]: it's not directly relevant and one thing I wanted to ask you is that you know I mean this is obviously

[01:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: a highly complicated trial how do you think the state and the defense are doing so far and then

[01:02:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I also want to ask you about the removal of one of the attorneys from the case well it's

[01:02:38] [SPEAKER_03]: flat for long paid you know it can't start in January the first Monday in January and with

[01:02:44] [SPEAKER_03]: with jury selection and testimony started I think the 22nd but the defense used only the last three

[01:02:55] [SPEAKER_03]: weeks to put on their primary case so four or nearly five months were taken up by the government's

[01:03:02] [SPEAKER_03]: case at first when I first was in court the first few days of the trial I thought the

[01:03:08] [SPEAKER_03]: the government case was plotting they had a basically had you can see kind of a checklist

[01:03:14] [SPEAKER_03]: of I have to get this evidence and this evidence and this evidence and and they had asked the

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_03]: questions and and get the answers and there was no drama the defense attorney Michael Kennedy is

[01:03:27] [SPEAKER_03]: based out of Reno he was very effective at first with a style that pinned down you know so

[01:03:36] [SPEAKER_03]: you were on associative you've got guilty isn't it true that you're guilty yes you've

[01:03:41] [SPEAKER_03]: been able to go through smoking drugs yes you've got the go through to being addicted to drugs yes

[01:03:45] [SPEAKER_03]: you're guilty but to violent crimes yes and you know why would we believe you why are and

[01:03:50] [SPEAKER_03]: it was very effective as time has gone on exhaustion sets in and that same approach

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_03]: really doesn't do much for you after your fifth six 10 person who has pleaded guilty

[01:04:05] [SPEAKER_03]: and you're trying to simply character assassinate them it doesn't have the same effect anymore

[01:04:12] [SPEAKER_03]: in my view the defense has taken on the main task has been to to repeatedly ask people oh well

[01:04:20] [SPEAKER_03]: you testified about this violent incident here did you know that coming a termite

[01:04:25] [SPEAKER_03]: tempted Kamakapeli church and glee did you know that they touched the one to teach so did you know

[01:04:31] [SPEAKER_03]: that they tended to bring in young university and the Polynesian Coastal Center did you know that

[01:04:37] [SPEAKER_03]: and so attracting attention away from alleged crimes to oh you do know what a big company this

[01:04:44] [SPEAKER_03]: was the big jobs they did and how they donated time um they did jobs for the city for free

[01:04:51] [SPEAKER_03]: blah blah blah that's one prong of the approach the second prong was the alleged that anybody who

[01:04:57] [SPEAKER_03]: who made it entered into a plea deal to avoid trial was probably lying because they'd say anything

[01:05:05] [SPEAKER_03]: to get out of it to to maintain that through the number of witnesses who have played out in this

[01:05:11] [SPEAKER_03]: case and who are supported by other documents recordings text messages with phone log contact

[01:05:20] [SPEAKER_03]: information i have my doubts that that's going to work for the defense i should mention at least

[01:05:27] [SPEAKER_03]: he started he had 10 original co-dependents two were added later all 12 of those dependent

[01:05:34] [SPEAKER_03]: co-defendants have pled guilty many of them or at least half of them are facing

[01:05:41] [SPEAKER_03]: long time even despite their plea deals in addition there's another i found at least nine people

[01:05:48] [SPEAKER_03]: who were not charged along with miski but are were charged separately who also have entered

[01:05:55] [SPEAKER_03]: into plea deals and a number of those have testified it's overwhelming so you know how the jury

[01:06:04] [SPEAKER_03]: is going to going to be able to process all this that's going to be hard the closing statements

[01:06:12] [SPEAKER_03]: are scheduled for tomorrow and friday and it's going to be interesting to see how each side

[01:06:19] [SPEAKER_03]: tries to summarize and effectively tell tell a story that encompasses all the facts that occurred

[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_03]: and makes makes the the case coherent from their perspective and we're just going to see how they

[01:06:36] [SPEAKER_01]: do in that case i don't know yeah it's it's going to be very interesting to see what happens and

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: and then one thing i mean with this attorney thomas otake um what what happened with that

[01:06:49] [SPEAKER_03]: well so otake had been representing miski for a number of years starting well before 2014 but in

[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_03]: 2014 without when that drug deal was broken up in california one of the people who had

[01:07:07] [SPEAKER_03]: traveled to california was a close associate of miski the name is wane miller and miller

[01:07:14] [SPEAKER_03]: had been a kid convicted of armed robbery of savings alone or a credit union excuse me convicted in 2005

[01:07:25] [SPEAKER_03]: he was mischi wrote a letter to the court and referenced for him saying they'd been friends

[01:07:30] [SPEAKER_03]: for 10 years so he must have must have um they must have known each other when miller was a kid

[01:07:37] [SPEAKER_03]: was like a 10 or 12 year old kid and miski was 20 something so they'd known each other all

[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_03]: assigned miller came back from california after failing to get the drug deal miski was afraid that

[01:07:50] [SPEAKER_03]: miller had the fact that miller was released without charges meant he made a deal with the

[01:07:56] [SPEAKER_03]: government or something at that point so he called tom otake his attorney who was on call

[01:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: wanted to meet them otake saw him not in the office so he said okay we're going to meet

[01:08:08] [SPEAKER_03]: i'll meet you in the parking lot of the school on the edge of wikiki elementary school late afternoon

[01:08:14] [SPEAKER_03]: in the parking lot miller and miski go miski asked miller to explain to otake what happened

[01:08:20] [SPEAKER_03]: and get otake's opinion about what what miller's exposure was and by extension what miski's

[01:08:28] [SPEAKER_03]: exposure was the government took the position that otake had an essential conflict of interest

[01:08:37] [SPEAKER_03]: because he was going to he would go so many calls as a witness about that interview that meeting with

[01:08:44] [SPEAKER_03]: in the parking lot of the school and they after on an afternoon and so i are early august 2014

[01:08:52] [SPEAKER_03]: and that he couldn't he couldn't properly defend miski and be a witness in the case

[01:08:59] [SPEAKER_03]: at the same time and it took several rounds there were other grounds originally proposed to keep

[01:09:08] [SPEAKER_03]: having removed from the case but that was the argument that eventually led to his dismissal

[01:09:14] [SPEAKER_03]: but he was he was going to be a witness in the case and the essential witness because he would

[01:09:18] [SPEAKER_03]: they be he would be asked for his judgment about what whether miller was telling the truth

[01:09:24] [SPEAKER_03]: when they had that meeting and having that kind of external opinion about miller's

[01:09:32] [SPEAKER_03]: truthfulness would be on the central part of the trial so that that's what did it i mean that was

[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_03]: it came very late in the case not that long before trial but posed difficulties for miski's

[01:09:47] [SPEAKER_03]: remaining attorney and that's when they brought in this mr can't mr kennedy from reno

[01:09:53] [SPEAKER_03]: who has handled a number of these cases and was a was previously a federal defender

[01:10:00] [SPEAKER_02]: within the federal court system we really appreciate you taking the time to go into all this was such

[01:10:07] [SPEAKER_02]: detail with us and i'm curious if our listeners want to follow your work or read your work

[01:10:13] [SPEAKER_03]: where can they find your stuff at uh well um i've belonged for a number of years and

[01:10:20] [SPEAKER_03]: it's gotten kind of stethi as i'm trying to pay attention to the trial so one way to do it is to

[01:10:26] [SPEAKER_03]: look at my blog it's i lind dot net i'll take off of my name ian ian lind i lind dot net uh for my

[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_03]: blog which i you know do a bunch of writing for and i've written more substantive leaf over the

[01:10:43] [SPEAKER_03]: course of this trial and even before for punlulu civil beat which is an online news organization here

[01:10:51] [SPEAKER_03]: that's you know one of one of the local um journalism groups around the country experimenting

[01:10:57] [SPEAKER_03]: experimenting with providing local news coverage on a non-profit basis and it simply can be found

[01:11:05] [SPEAKER_03]: at civil beat dot org i should say one one more thing about about the case and the trial

[01:11:12] [SPEAKER_03]: you know okay i followed this so closely leading up to the trial but i have to tell civil beat

[01:11:19] [SPEAKER_03]: um look this is a six month trial i'm i'm supposed to be mostly retired i'm not going to be able

[01:11:24] [SPEAKER_03]: to attend a six month trial well turns out no one can attend a six month trial and report on it

[01:11:30] [SPEAKER_03]: so there has been limited very limited reporting in the course of this trial as even the even with

[01:11:39] [SPEAKER_03]: the most um salacious testimony along the way uh there's only only a fraction of the coverage

[01:11:46] [SPEAKER_03]: it would normally have gotten um and that's that's a broader problem for the system of how

[01:11:54] [SPEAKER_03]: when one of these big cases comes along can we prepare what i did finally was after realizing

[01:12:01] [SPEAKER_03]: that civil beat was not able to get an intern or a staff member to be going to the trial

[01:12:07] [SPEAKER_03]: all right i put out a call from volunteers and we have a small core of volunteers who

[01:12:11] [SPEAKER_03]: so each each day another volunteer would appear in court and take notes on the trial testimony

[01:12:18] [SPEAKER_03]: and that's the only way we've managed from the outside to um keep track of what's been going on

[01:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: not not the best way to report on a trial of this kind but it's the best we could do

[01:12:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and again that's one of those comments from the state of local journalists of these days

[01:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: well we commend you and and civil beat for what you all are doing with this i think it's it's

[01:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: scary that um you know something like this can happen and it gets to questions of corruption

[01:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: policing what's going on how is the situation like this allowed to get so out of control

[01:12:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and when no one covers it nobody knows about it nobody knows what's going on in their community

[01:12:59] [SPEAKER_01]: so you've done such an excellent job shining a light on it we've been riveted by your reporting

[01:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: i love your blog and that it has such a great pun at its heart of it so i i we really cannot

[01:13:11] [SPEAKER_01]: um stress enough how much people should be reading your stuff on this uh do you have plans to maybe

[01:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: do another massive case after this or is this kind of uh it for now i have to take a breath and see

[01:13:25] [SPEAKER_01]: what happens yeah that's that's hard to go back to back i imagine um but you know is there anything

[01:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: else we didn't ask you about i mean i'm sure there's a ton of stuff that we didn't get to cover

[01:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: but it is definitely in your reporting and people should check it out for more details

[01:13:39] [SPEAKER_03]: but anything else you wanted to mention no that's a good question um no i mean that it can if as i say

[01:13:50] [SPEAKER_03]: it's so sprawling it can go on and on but um best to cut this off here while we seven put people to

[01:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: sleep you up i i i mean we've been sitting here like oh my god like you can't see us but we're

[01:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: we're we've been doing like um head explosion motions to show how i mean it's it's crazy it's

[01:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: it's really but it's i mean as i said it sounds like it's out of a noir but it's real and it's

[01:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: happening and people need to pay attention to it i'm curious have you ever thought about writing

[01:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: a book about this um my wife tells me i should i don't know i mean it's not a book watching

[01:14:28] [SPEAKER_03]: different a different beast right true i'll have to say well if you do please let us know because

[01:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: we love we'd love for you to come back on and talk more about it when uh you know if and when it comes

[01:14:40] [SPEAKER_01]: out last month the jury convicted miski on 13 of the 16 charges he faced including murder in aid

[01:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: of racketeering kidnapping and conspiracy to commit assault we highly recommend following

[01:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: ian's work to keep track of the future developments in this story you can find his blog at island net

[01:15:04] [SPEAKER_02]: now that's a pun on his name in the word island so the address is actually spelled i l i n d dot

[01:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: n e t his work also appears at the hana lulu civil beat that site also has a host of other great

[01:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: reporting on hawaii we really want to thank ian for taking the time to share his work on this very

[01:15:27] [SPEAKER_02]: interesting story with us and we hope he does indeed choose to write a book on it thanks so

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