I did not mean to imply that she was some big mucky muck. Only that the position she held would have been one where she could easily have had the connections (think 6 degrees of separation on a scale of really only one or two degrees) to accomplish the goal.
I know that if I wanted to get something “done” in Hawaii, that was important enough to bend a few laws, I know exactly who to contact in Hawaii. Not because that person could accomplish what I wanted, but because that person would KNOW someone who could, or that knew someone who knew someone that could. Thats just how things work in Hawaii.
“I did not mean to imply that she was some big mucky muck.”
That is the only reasonable inference from what you said:
“Grandma is VERY well connected in Honolulu. You don’t get to the position of VP of Hawaii’s largest bank and NOT be connected. In Hawaii connections are everything. With connections, you can do just about anything, a favor is a favor, and Grandma likely had more than just a few to pull in.”
The vast majority of bank vice presidents are hardly “VERY well connected.” They will know a lot of folks, and they may have a very little pull with some folks not high in the social food chain. That doesn't make them "VERY well connected."
“With connections, you can do just about anything, a favor is a favor, and Grandma likely had more than just a few to pull in.”
Unlikely. Most bank vice presidents have little leeway to do actual favors for folks that they can “pull in” later on. I've been dealing with my current bank for 18 years, and the folks at my local branch are very nice to me, including any and all the vice presidents. They never hold deposited checks as long as they might legally, although I've nearly never had a deposited check bounce on me. They're always trying to show me new and [to them] interesting banking products, always ready to extend more credit to me and other local businessfolks, and they are generally nice people.
But in 18 years, none of them have ever done anything for me approaching a favor that they could later “pull in” for a reciprocal favor on my part. ESPECIALLY if the favor had anything to do with cutting legal corners.
This part (along with other parts, as noted by other posters) of your tale isn't credible.
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