That this much blatant corruption was tolerated at the top of HPD is an indictment of the entire political system in Honolulu, Oahu and frankly all of Hawaii. When I moved here twenty years ago, a friend of mine in the FBI told me that Hawaii is the most transparently corrupt state in the union. Nothing I have witnessed in the past twenty years has altered that assessment. The entire political class, with rare and notable exceptions, stinks from top to bottom. Why people here tolerate this corruption is beyond me.