POLITICAL SCANDAL
Wayne Nishiki’s Dowling loan
OK, forgive us for a moment while we toot our own horn: the biggest political scandal of the year, as voted on by you, was broken in these pages. Now, for the uninitiated: Wayne Nishiki ran for the South Maui County Council seat as the independent candidate with no binding ties to the island’s big developers. He also accused his opponent, Don Couch, of being too developer-friendly. After the election, which Nishiki won narrowly, new information came to light: on a form filed well after the deadline, the Councilman revealed that he took a $100,000 personal loan from developer Everett Dowling while out of office. An ethics investigation was launched, but the results were never made public and Nishiki remains in office. It’ll be interesting to see, if Nishiki chooses to run for reelection, whether he’ll try to play the independent card again—and if the voters will buy it. [JS]
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