MAUI TIME - IDENTITY THEFT UPDATED

Update from April 10, 2010 ppd entry:

This past week, I ran into Adrienne Pinsky in Paia.
She is the former founder and Publisher of Haleakala
Times newspaper. I had written for the Haleakala
Times in the Summer/Fall of 2004 during the time I
had volunteered at the Maui Democratic Headquarters
as an inquiring independent voter who recently returned
to live on Maui.

During the few months that I worked as a volunteer,
I wrote weekly email newsletters providing a synopsis
of national platform agenda directives and a listing
of local campaign events featuring Democratic candi-
dates. After this experience, I informed all those
who were of influence in their Party office that I
was cutting off all ties to the Democratic Party.

In any case, I spoke briefly with Adrienne about
her move to the Big Island after her newspaper was
bought, then turned into an internet site. I also
told her of my experience of identity theft, threats
and false representation with the Maui Time internet
site.

She knows Brian Murphy, whose picture was on the front
page of the Maui News in 2008 with other men arrested
for drug crimes, had my phone number with his credit
card and auto insurance companies.

Since Mr. Murphy had had his office in the same
commercial building as the Haleakala Times at a
busy site in Paia, she knew him personally, as did
many other small business owners in this town.

With identity theft in a small community that is
known to have endemic corruption within government
and law enforcement, person-to-person word of mouth
advocacy is the most effective form of information
sharing for crimes involving wire fraud/id theft.

On this same afternoon, I ran into Riki Suarez,
the owner of the Rainbow Hostel in Paia. He also
heard that my name was fraudulently used by some-
one on the Maui Time comment board with regard to
Native Hawaiian Kingdom and drug issues. He and
I met about a year ago when I stayed at his hostel
for a several days.

When proof of id theft and wire fraud is on the
internet, a swift and effective response should be
easy. Not in Hawaii. For Hawaii's own tiny economic
base, ranking 11th in the list of riskiest cyber-
crime states is an accomplishment that no resident
should be proud of.