Word: fasi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a Honolulu grand jury indicted Three-Term Mayor Frank Fasi for bribery last March, Special Prosecutor Grant Cooper thought he had an airtight case. The flamboyant Fasi, 57, a former junk dealer given to gestures like throwing a birthday party for himself at Aloha Stadium and inviting 20,000 guests, was charged with entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored...
...then brought him back to the witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi's hopes for a second term...
...appointed president of the University of Hawaii. Both men are nisei, or second-generation Americans; Ariyoshi's father had been a sumo wrestler in Japan. Today only two non-A.J.A.s hold major elective offices in Hawaii: U.S. Senator Hiram Fong, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, an Italian American. A rundown of other important Hawaiian politicians reads like an A.J.A. Who's Who: U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Watergate committee fame, Representatives Spark Matsunaga and Patsy Mink, State Senate President John Ushijima, State House Speaker James Wakatsuki. A.J.A.s hold...
...general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu bus lines. The union accepted Fasi's "very attractive proposal." The money will be used to augment bus-driver salaries for 30 days...
...Fasi's gambit has some intriguing consequences. If his contribution were considered "personal use" of campaign funds, it would be subject to federal income tax. As it is, the Internal Revenue Service in Honolulu considers Fasi's $40,000 to come under a regulation that makes campaign contributions nontaxable. The bus drivers may not have to pay income tax on their shares of the money, either, since legally it is a gift. Federal planners have worked out any number of ways to subsidize mass transit, but chances are that Fasi's dodge never occurred to them...