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Tales of Crime and Corruption in the South Pacific Sightings from The Catbird Seat.
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American Samoa - From Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3/24/01: Feds Uncover American Samoa Sweatshop
A report details physical beatings, inhumane conditions and forced labor The owner of a clothing factory in American Samoa held his Vietnamese and Chinese employees prisoner and forced them to work in inhumane conditions, according to a complaint filed in Honolulu federal court. An investigation by FBI agents determined that the president of Daewoosa Samoa Ltd. "defrauded, failed to pay and at times deprived of food, beat and physically restrained these workers to force them to work," said FBI Special Agent William S. Denson . . .
The criminal complaint charged Kil Soo Lee with involuntary servitude and forced labor, violations of federal law. The federal investigation into the sweatshop operation in the American territory began after some workers brought their complaints to church workers. The US Dept of Labor launched an investigation earlier this year. The clothing factory located in the Daniel K. Inouye Industrial Park in Tafuna, American Samoa, employed up to 250 people. Densen said Special Agent Charles E. Beckwith of the Honolulu office interviewed workers who were flown to American Samoa by way of Honolulu. "Lee stated to investigators that workers he imported through Hawaii had tried to 'escape'." . . .
According to the FBI complaint:
The temperature in the plant reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit during work hours. Workers were not paid for periods of three to six months. Vietnamese workers signed three-year contracts for $408 per month. But they were required to pay $4,000 before leaving Vietnam, and some were charged an "immigration fee" of $1,500. Lee charged them $200 per month room and board, deducted from their pay. They lived in barracks, 36 people to a room, in rooms described as wet, dirty and rat-infested.
When Chinese workers complained about not being paid and given inedible food, "Lee withheld the workers' food for two days and locked the gate to the facility. Lee called the police to arrest the workers he identified as leaders, claiming that they were being 'assaultive'." . .
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Last November, according to witnesses, "Daewoosa supervisors and other Samoan workers and security guards then assaulted and beat the Vietnamese workers, causing severe and permanent bodily injury." One person suffered permanent hearing impairment, and another lost an eye, according to the court document.
Lee traveled to Hawaii to apply for a loan for factory construction, and checks on the company's Bank of Hawaii account in Samoa were cashed in Honolulu, according to the affidavit.
The FBI investigation found that the clothing made in the Daewoosa factory was shipped to Los Angeles.
See also: Bank of Hawaii, Dan Inouye
Apollo Advisors - Financial investment managers. 13th largest campaign contributor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Al Gore's vice presidential running mate, and a client of lobbying firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Another of Akin, Gump's clients is Miller & Chavalier, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm which, together with PricewaterhouseCoopers, drafted the IRS settlement agreement for Hawaii's Kamehameha Schools. Apollo Advisors has a number of other important connections with Kamehameha Schools: Along with National Housing Corp (which was involved in an alleged kick-back scheme with ousted Bishop Estate trustees Henry Peters and Richard Wong), Apollo and Trinity Investment Trust have financial interests in several estate-owned properties involving two alleged Yakuza-connected companies -- Azabu Building Company and Mitsui Trust.
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From Hoovers On-Line: Apollo Advisors earned its reputation as a vulture investor by specializing in distressed assets (junk bonds, troubled companies, real estate).
Leon Black, the former Drexel Burnham Lambert mergers and acquisitions chief, and a dozen other Drexel refugees founded the group, which invested in former Drexel clients after that firm's collapse -- notably the $3 billion dollar junk bond portfolio of failed California insurer Executive Life.
Apollo has invested billions from four funds and has launched a fifth fund aimed at raising some $4 billion.
Apollo is linked with the Artemis group of investment holdings controlled by French billionaire François Pinault, the relationship dates back to the downfall of Executive Life. For much more, GO TO > > > Apollo
Asian Development Bank - From Honolulu Advertiser, 12/10/00: Honolulu's Image Polished for Asia Development Bank Meeting - With five months to go before Honolulu gets its first chance to welcome some of the most powerful people in the world - possibly even the next U.S. president - during the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting, organizers are making sure they are projecting the right image that will result in return business.
The Asian Development Bank holds heavyweight status in the Pacific Hemisphere. The Manila-based bank's board of governors comprises the financial ministers from the 59 member nations who oversee the annual distribution of about $5 billion in loans, mostly to address poverty and infrastructure in developing nations.
With that kind of muscle, the bank's big events command plenty of attention, with or without presidents.
For organizers here, who expect some 3,000 to fill the Hawai`i Convention Center May 7-11, the first ethic in planning events is to ensure that delicate diplomatic treatment is spread evenly among all delegations. That equality covers everything from the color and style of sedans assigned to each country to the details for subdividing a convention center meeting room ... according to Gerry Silva, the person handling the day-to-day planning of the event ... Silva keeps a couple of file cabinets dedicated to the minutiae of serving as host to such an event. For instance, th notes that ... transportation has to be worked out to the second. Finance ministers- some of the most powerful people in Asia- simply don´t wait for rides. . . . For more GO TO: Asian Development Bank
Azabu Building Company - Azabu Building purchased a number of major hotel properties in Hawaii during the 1980's "big bubble" years, with Mitsui Trust providing much of the financing. Several of the properties were on land leased from Bishop Estate.
When the bubble burst, Azabu and Mitsui were forced to liquidate many of the properties at huge losses. Some of Azabu's and Mitsui Trust's distressed properties were purchased by entities in which Apollo Advisers, Goldman Sachs, National Housing, Trinity and other companies -- connected in some manner with Bishop Estate -- play a part.
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April 13, 1998
YAKUZA, INC.
By David Kaplan, U.S. News & World Report American investors are spending billions of dollars to snap up portfolios of bad loans from Japanese banks. That could put them on a collision course with notorious Japanese crime syndicates called "yakuza". . . . The wiser U.S. firms ... are hiring high-powered investigators and law firms in Tokyo to go through the portfolios loan by loan ..."they all have the same questions ... who are we dealing with? Who's in the building?" One portfolio of 49 loans examined ... found that 40% of the borrowers had ties to organized crime. Fully 25% of them had criminal records ranging from disrupting auctions to assault, extortion, and rape.
U.S. News obtained a similar portfolio of 108 properties offered to Western investors by Mitsui Trust & Banking Co., one of Japan's largest banks. Thirteen of the properties -- including condos, undeveloped land, and parking lots in Tokyo -- are held by Azabu Building, a company that might not mean much to Americans but is quite familiar to Japanese police. In early March, Azabu's president, Kitaro Watanabe, received two years in prison for hiding some $18 million in assets from creditors. Azabu properties, moreover, are protected by groups tied to Tokyo's largest crime syndicate, according to police. One investigator who ventured onto one of Watanabe's properties was held hostage for an hour by its "tenants," until the gang's boss telephoned the hapless fellow, according to the man's associates. "Next time you come out here, come with the proper introductions!" shouted the godfather. "Go home, wash your face, and come visit us again."
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 06/25/97: . . .
Top Azabu Executives Arrested in Japan
The troubled real estate firm owns several major hotels in Hawaii. The president and two other executives of Azabu Building Company were arrested today on suspicion of illegally concealing the firm's assets to prevent creditors claiming them.
Arrested were Kitaro Watanabe, 63, the president, and Katsumi Naganuma, 62, and Shoichi Owaki, 60, board members of Azabu Building, one of the heaviest borrowers from failed housing loan companies. In Hawaii, Watanabe was the early leader in Japanese "bubble" investing. In a buying spree that started in 1986, Azabu companies spent some $600 million on Hawaii hotels. They later shed two of them but they still own the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, the Ala Moana Hotel, the Maui Marriott and the Keauhou Beach Hotel. [Currently down to one - the Ala Moana Hotel.] The three Azabu executives are suspected of having transferred some 1.3 billion yen ($11.3 million) in rents paid to the Azabu group to banks accounts of affiliated dummy companies, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office said. Prosecutors said the transfer of rents earned by Azabu between Sept 1994 and Dec 1995 was intended to keep such assets away from creditors. If convicted the three could be jailed for up to two years.
At present, the group has some 600 billion yen ($5.2 billion) in outstanding debts, including more than 110 billion yen to four housing loan companies taken over by Housing Loan Administration Corp., a government-backed debt-recovering body . . . The group also owes some 160 billion yen ($1.4 billion) to Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. . . . Most of the loans have become nonperforming . . .
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 7/31/97: Keauhou Beach Hotel being sold - A Chicago-based partnership is buying the 318-room Keauhou Beach Hotel on the Kona Coast . . .
Trinity Investment Trust LLC, which is also purchasing the mortgage to the Aloha Tower Marketplace, has signed a letter of agreement to acquire the beachfront hotel from Azabu USA. The hotel, built in 1970, sits on land leased from the Bishop Estate. . . .
Azabu, headed by maverick deal maker Kitaro Watanabe, acquired the Keauhou Beach Hotel in 1987 for $13 million. During the 1980s, Azabu invested about $600 million in Hawaii, acquiring the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, the Ala Moana Hotel, the Maui Marriott and the Kona Lagoon [also on land leased from Bishop Estate]. Since then, Azabu has run into a string of financial difficulties. In 1993, lender Mitsui Trust & Banking Go. filed a foreclosure suit on the 1,200-room Hyatt Regency. In 1994, Mitsui wrote off $1 billion in bad debts from loans to Azabu. Last month, Tokyo officials arrested Watanabe and two other Azabu officials alleging that they illegally concealed company assets from creditors. Azabu's Hawaii subsidiary said then that the arrests had no effect on the company's local operations. [Yuk!...Yuk!] Trinity, meanwhile, is part of a new wave of American buyers who are purchasing properties from financially troubled Japanese investors. . .
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The company -- whose investors include former VMS Realty executives George Ruff, local attorney Jon Miho [of McCorriston Miho Miller & Mukai fame - the defense attorneys for the ousted trustees, and the Miyo who recently attempted to post bail for Sukamto Sia] and hotel developer Charles Sweeney -- is trying to acquire the $60 million mortgage to the Aloha Tower Marketplace from Mitsui and take over the waterfront complex.
Last year, Trinity and Apollo Advisors L.P. bought the $130 million mortgage to the nearby Harbor Court luxury office and condominium complex for an undisclosed price from Mitsui. Trinity has also joined up with Apollo, time-share operator Signature Resorts Inc. and Goldman Sachs' Whitehall Fund [another Bishop Estate investment] to buy the 413-room Embassy Suites Resort on Maui for $78 million. . . . [Catbird Comment: Note that nowhere in the article is there any mention of Azabu's connection with the Yakuza.]
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See also: Apollo Advisors, Chris Hemmeter, Mitzui Trust, Trinity Investment Trust, Yakuza
Bank of Hawaii - From greaterthings.com, by Greg Wongham: HAWAIIAN BANKS LINK: China-US Campaign Scandal and Illicit Capital Flow The Link Between Mochtar Riady and the Clinton Administration. The problems with the FDIC/Donna Tanoue and the two big Hawaii banks will undoubtedly effect people throughout the country. I believe that the Hawaii links to Mochtar Riady are attempting to gain access to the American capital market through Riady's brother-in-law, Mumin Ala Gundawun. Riady was too hot (BCCI, Chinagate), so they wisely chose to approach their plan via the Hawaii connection. Sec. Treas.,
Robert Moore, Minister Plenipotentiary, Kingdom of EnenKio Foreign Trade Mission
DO-MO-CO Manager, Remios Hermios Eleemosynary Trust, Majuro, Marshall Islands
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