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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
Honolulu'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 insider's look at the
business of journalism and the craft of investigative reporting.
Dooley's first assignment as an investigative journalist involved
the city housing project of Kukui Plaza, which introduced him to
the """"pay to play"""" method of awarding government contracts to
obliging consultants. In later stories, he scrutinized bloody
struggles over illicit gambling revenue, the murder of a city
prosecutor's son, local syndicate ties to the Teamsters Union, and
the dealings of Bishop Estate. His groundbreaking coverage of the
forays by yakuza (Japanese organized crime) into Hawai'i 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 Mehau—was he the """"godfather of organized crime"""" in
Hawai'i 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 Mehau's activities to
allow readers to judge for themselves.
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