Posted on 07/25/2026 12:13:47 PM PDT by CFW
Democratic Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke was indicted by a grand jury on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery and falsifying candidate committee reports stemming from a bribe she allegedly took as a state lawmaker in 2022.
The indictment alleges that local businessman and lobbyist Tobi Solidum offered Luke a $35,000 bribe connected to a COVID-19 testing contract a company he recommended had with the state.
Solidum was also indicted as part of the state attorney general’s probe, along with former state representative Ryan Yamane, Hawaii’s Transportation Department official Ford Fuchigami, and Leo Asunción, a former official for Hawaii’s public utilities commission.
All five defendants were swept up as part of state Attorney General Anne Lopez’s January investigation, which was an offshoot of a federal bribery probe.
Solidum represented the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii, which had contracts with the state to provide COVID-19 testing sites.
In January 2022, with his client’s contracts set to expire soon, Solidum met with Luke at a steakhouse and allegedly gave her two $5,000 checks made out to her campaign committee Friends of Sylvia Luke, according to prosecutors.
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There are no good Democrats.
Not to worry. There are plenty of other rat hacks to take her place if she gets convicted
Democratic Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke was indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery and falsifying candidate committee reports stemming from a bribe she allegedly took as a state lawmaker in 2022. She just announced she's taking a prolonged leave of absence.
“The indictment alleges that local businessman and lobbyist Tobi Solidum offered Luke a $35,000 bribe connected to a COVID-19 testing contract a company he recommended had with the state”.
Covid. Nothing good from that one.
Sure is a lot of this going on these days.
Do you think she’s going to run? (As in ‘away’)
Ah, just a campaign contribution. Nothing to see here. It is done every single day all across the fruited plain on both sides of politics.
LOL.......possible, very possible.
A commie committing fraud and corruption, say it isnt so they are such a honest bunch/sarc
“Sure is a lot of this going on these days.”
Covid was an immense money transfer operation.
Wow, party affiliation Democrat mentioned in the first word a bit of a rarity
But will a Hawaii jury convict her? And do the charges align with ‘Aloha Spirit’ which is apparently the undermining of law on the islands.
Say it ain’t so, Joe....
What’s going on is investigations are yielding results. This corruption was always there, but the Uniparty just ignored it.
What did Hirono know and when did she know it??
Chinese Communist Party Spy
Business as usual in this corrupt democrat state.
“Covid was an immense money transfer operation.”
Do not leave out the massive election theft mechanism it enabled.
Tim Walz should be next.
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