Council Testimony to Support Chris Salem for Exposing Corporation Counsel’s Illegal Coverup of Crimes against the County by Developers,  their Consultants, and Dept. Directors

📍 I’m just going to go for six minutes on the two Rezos. Please do not interrupt me. I am so thankful to Michael Victorino

for allowing Chris Salem and I to convince him

to hire Chris Salem to rout out how corruption takes place

in Maui County’s administration of planning and Public works

all facilitated by and protected, mind you, by corporation council for decades.

Thanks to Michael Victorino’s commitment to clean up this garbage.

We now have a venue in the courts that never previously existed.

And through the courts, we are revealing Absolute proof of fraud

facilitated and protected by corporation council

who has been conflicted out of this case,

who should not be participating in executive sessions with the council.

Chris Salem’s new amended complaints are based on government documents

that corporation council wrongfully withheld for over two years.

That’s why it’s happening so late in the process.

KSG will tell you that that’s a problem.

The only problem it is is for corporation council.

They have been wrongfully obstructing.

Why? Because they have been covering their own asses.

And there’s no accident that KSG has been hired

because KSG is actually part of the harm that was intentionally perpetrated against Chris Salem

because he blew the whistle on the deferral agreements

and had the audacity to stand up to corrupt, high-powered developers and their corrupt attorneys.

It’s no accident that the auditor abandoned the audit into the deferral agreements.

And that’s why he’s now named.

You are being hoodwinked by Corporation Council and KSG.

Read the new complaints. They are thorough.

The proof is all in the discovery already.

And there’s a whole new wave of discovery coming.

Because these new counts involve high level individuals within the county

from Corp Counsel to department directors

to developers, to their engineering firms, and to their lawyers.

They are all culpable and they are all going down.

Somebody’s going to go to jail.

And probably more than one person deserves to go to jail.

Here, listen about who’s responsible here.

Mike Victorino: I know Pat Wong. I know a lot about his life. Sometimes they drink and they talk. I know David Goode. I know the shit he’s pulled. A lot of it was borderline illegal. Sometimes it may cross one way or the other, but it’s borderline. They know I know. And what are you going to come back at me with?

The plan with Mike was to hold the developers

and their professional consultants responsible for the fraud

and financial harm that they brought to Chris Salem.

Chris even agreed to hold the county harmless. In return for bringing the developers into the room to negotiate. We have the documentation

that shows that Michael Victorino tried to honor his commitment

and he was blocked from doing so by Michelle McLean and Moana Lutey.

They used Chris Salem’s legitimate criticisms of Greg Brown’s Monster Hotel

as falsified ammunition to terminate his job.

And thank you for doing so.

Because that wrongful termination is why we are in court today.

And we are going to reopen Discovery

and get more dirt on what these people have done

and what this council should be holding them accountable for.

That is your job. The Charter gives you the authority to do that. Corp Council is asking for nearly half a million dollars,

and that is before these new complaints. KSG is gonna come back to you eventually

it’ll be 1.5 million dollars. Just so Corp Council can defend their own demonstrated wrongdoing

against a pro se whistleblower

who time after time has been proven right.

Wouldn’t that money be better spent

on a full fledged council investigation into all of this crap?

Work with us to hold the developers and their professional consultants responsible for their fraud. Let the financial liabilities be on them. Not on the citizens of Maui County. So thank you, Mike Victorino.

This will be your strongest legacy. Thank you for setting it all in motion.