Sunny Skies, Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption

Sunny Skies, Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption in the Aloha State (A Latitude 20 Book)

For thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investigative stories of organized crime and political corruption that headlined the front page of Honoluluâ€™s morning daily. In Sunny Skies, Shady Characters, James Dooley revisits highlights of his career as a hard-hitting investigative reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and, in later years, for KITV television and the online Hawaii Reporter. His lively backstories on how he chased these high-profile scandals make fascinating reading, while providing an insiderâ€™s look at the business of journalism and the craft of investigative reporting.

Dooleyâ€™s first assignment as an investigative journalist involved the city housing project of Kukui Plaza, which introduced him to the â€œpay to playâ€ method of awarding government contracts to obliging consultants. In later stories, he scrutinized bloody struggles over illicit gambling revenue, the murder of a city prosecutorâ€™s son, local syndicate ties to the Teamsters Union, and the dealings of Bishop Estate. His groundbreaking coverage of the forays by yakuza into Hawaii and the continental United States were the first of its kind in American journalism.

As Dooley pursued stories from the underside of island society, names of respected public figures and those of violent criminals filled his notebook: entertainer Don Ho, U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, Governors George Ariyoshi and Ben Cayetano, Mayor Frank Fasi, and notorious felons Henry Huihui, Nappy Pulawa, and Ronnie Ching. Woven throughout is the name of Big Island rancher Larry Mehauâ€”was he the â€œgodfather of organized crimeâ€ in Hawaii as alleged by the FBI, or simply an ex-cop who befriended power brokers in the course of doing business for his security guard firm? The book includes a timeline of Mehauâ€™s activities to allow readers to judge for themselves.
Country USA
Manufacturer Latitude 20
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Latitude 20
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-31
Format	Kindle eBook

Sunny Skies, Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption in the Aloha State (A Latitude 20 Book)

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