Huge Scandal: Key Hawaii Legislators Bribed by Racketeers for More than a Decade

As we have documented in previous blog posts, an ongoing dangerous criminal enterprise, DBA “Alive and Well Health Emporium”, with millions in annual ill-gotten revenues, has been allowed to brazenly operate openly and even advertise heavily on radio. County and state officials could have put a stop to the group’s rackets and crime sprees a decade ago, but they have refused to act.

The role of corrupt police and Maui County officials has already been described. But why hasn’t the state stopped the racketeers? Once the Attorney General failed to take action why didn’t the house and senate committees on health hold hearings? The committee members are fully aware of the racketeers’ activities and the dangers they pose to public health, but their silence has been deafening.

Now we know why. Reliable sources have informed me that every house and senate health committee chair and vice chair for the last seven years has accepted cash bribes from the Alive and Well racketeers in exchange for keeping the matter off their calendars. This includes current House Health Committee Chair Della Au Belatti and Vice Chair Richard P. Creagan; and Senate House Health Committee Chair Josh Green and Vice Chair Glenn Wakai. The amounts of the payoffs have ranged from $4,000 to $10,000.

There are indications that some of the more influential members of the two committees may have also received bribes to exert their influence and help keep the lid on. We are still investigating, so we won’t name them. However, we can name all members of the health committees and warn that they should all be considered corrupt or potentially corrupt.

On the House side we have Representatives: Hashem, Jordan, Kobayashi, Morikawa, Oshiro, Chang, and Tupola.   

On the Senate side we have Senators: Baker, Gabbard, Riviere, Ruderman, and Slom.

The Alive and Well Body Count   The racketeers have done more than scam millions of dollars from the public. Their criminal activities have injured and killed people. Corrupt government officials and legislators have aided and abetted these deadly crimes. The body count will be difficult to estimate because of the many ways the fraudsters inflict sickness and death, but it is surely in the hundreds. See www.killerlies.blogspot.com.  In any case, there is no doubt that several state legislators have blood on their hands.

There is generally no discernible pattern to the suffering and death of most of Alive and Well’s victims. An HIV/AIDS patient here, a stage 4 breast cancer patient there. These cases are difficult to document without legal action because neither Alive and Well nor the officials they bribed will cooperate. However, if there is a cluster of cases, as there is in mass food poisonings, the source of the problem can usually be identified.

For many years the Alive and Well racketeers have been vigorously and fanatically denouncing all vaccines, including those that prevent childhood diseases. They tell fantastic lies that scare parents from getting their kids vaccinated and opt instead for Alive and Well’s fraudulent vaccine substitutes consisting of toxic doses of vitamins and herbal drugs. Even in the face of the Wakefield scandal, the Disney measles and other outbreaks, and a flurry of studies debunking the horror stories and strongly supporting vaccinations, Alive and Well continues its anti-vaccination lies. They are practically the only ones doing this in the mass media (naturopaths are quieter about it), so any outbreak on Maui could probably be linked to these racketeers and their corrupt government allies. 

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For more detailed critiques of various forms of quackery, including naturopathy, see my book A Consumer’s Guide to “Alternative Medicine”. It was expertly edited by legendary quack buster Stephen Barrett, MD.  The critics say:

"Superb!" -- Dr. Victor Herbert in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Excellent" -- National Council Against Health Fraud.

"Five Stars" -- Cooking Light.

"Thought provoking; a great book" -- American Journal of Health Promotion.  

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