Broken trust : greed, mismanagement & political manipulation at America's largest charitable trust / Samuel P. King & Randall W. Roth.
"Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property - known as Bishop Estate - to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai'i: Kamehameha Schools. A cen...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Table of contents |
| Summary: | "Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property - known as Bishop Estate - to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai'i: Kamehameha Schools. A century later, Bishop Estate controlled nearly one out of every nine acres in the state, a concentration of private land ownership rarely seen anywhere in the world." "Then in August 1997 the unthinkable happened: four kupuna revered in the native Hawaiian community and a professor of trust law publicly charged Bishop Estate's trustees with gross incompetence and massive trust abuse. This book brings to light information that has never before been made public, including accounts of secret meetings and communications involving Supreme Court justices. The authors also show in detail how the scandal was swept under the rug by a judiciary that did not want a public airing of its dirty laundry, how Princess Pauahi's will has been systematically violated, and why the violations may continue."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | "A Latitude 20 book.". Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0824838084 9780824838089 0824830148 9780824830144 |