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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/2021 5:51 AM, Eric Kuhnke
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        <div>Did the FCC ever collect its $50 million from "Sandwich
          Isles Telecommunications" for blatant fraud?  At this scale I
          wonder how or why certain people are not in federal prison.</div>
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    <p>------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
    <p>Folks did go to prison:</p>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30903886/hawaii-telecom-executive-sentenced-to-46-months-behind-bars">https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30903886/hawaii-telecom-executive-sentenced-to-46-months-behind-bars</a><br>
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    <p>"Telecommunications executive Albert Hee was sentenced to 46
      months in federal prison on Wednesday for tax charges."</p>
    <p>"Hee is the younger brother of former state Sen. Clayton Hee and
      the founder of Sandwich Isles Communications."</p>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2020/12/01/hawaiian-telcom-to-acquire-fiber-network-paniolo.html">https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2020/12/01/hawaiian-telcom-to-acquire-fiber-network-paniolo.html</a></p>
    <p>"Hee, brother of former state Sen. <a
        href="https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/search/results?q=Clayton
        Hee">Clayton Hee</a>, was convicted <a
href="https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2014/12/18/alberthee-indicted-for-allegedly-taking-4m-from.html"
        target="_blank" rel="noopener">of federal tax fraud</a> in 2015
      and was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison and was released
      on Sept. 19, 2019, according to the Bureau of Prisons website."</p>
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    <p>good details here: 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/26464/FCC-Fines-Al-Hee-49M-for-Fraud">http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/26464/FCC-Fines-Al-Hee-49M-for-Fraud</a></p>
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    <p>He cheated folks that don't have much in the first place, so he
      could have millions he didn't deserve.  Ugly person.<br>
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    <p>We (Hawaiian Telcom) bought the Paniolo Cable Company for their
      interisland fiber network and have been pushing out good internet
      to the far-flung locations.  We have really, really remote
      locations here.<br>
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    <p>scott</p>
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    <p>(paniolo means cowboy in Hawaiian)<br>
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