Most people won't see this so I have to point out the obvious:

This story is directly related to the other one in CB about pidgin in the class room.

The kind of Small Town-ish, insular, oligagry-ish type of environment that allowed this kind of corruption to take root will be incubated further if pidgin gains prominence in the government classrooms (aka "public school").

Don't see the connection? Let me spell it out.
Anything that will make Hawaii further different from the rest of America (or the Western World) will result in fewer outsiders. Fewer outsiders will result in more insiderishness. More insider-ishness will result in more corny-ism, bruddah-bruddah ness, wink-wink nudge-nudge method of doing business, incestual hiring and promotion practices, and overall more "this-is-our-way-and-our-people" methodologies. That kind of environment will shut out the outside light that is necessary every so often in any organization; the kind of outside viewpoint to prevent in-house-ness.