Burlingame firm helps lands $4 billion settlement for Maui fire victims

Is $4 billion enough? Basically, Hawaiian Electric ratepayers will be footing the bill, much as PG&E ratepayers pay for PG&E’s penalties. Should we conclude the Hawaiian Electric is admitting responsibility for half the Maui fire? Even though the fire is still under investigation? Who is paying the other half? Is the state responsible for part of the settlement, with taxpayers footing the bill due to lagging emergency response time and negligence? Has anyone been fired for their actions, or lack thereof?

Hey Terence,

All brilliant questions as per usual. Today actually marks the 1 year Anniversary of the fire. There was a giant flotilla of boats that made their way along the coast of Maui from Mala Boat ramp in Lahaina to Maalea Harbor today in remembrance of all the lives lost - but as per usual - the local government/police said NO MEDIA. But a buddy of mine Eric West who has a YouTube Channel Hawaii Real Estate - filmed a good bit of it. He was the one who helped get over 1 MILLION dollars directly to locals from outside donations when FEMA was not letting locals help or deliver supplies and the Red Cross was stealing donations to inventory for themselves. Real story. Our boys had to go rouge and deliver supplies to secret beaches. I just pray none of you experience FEMA in your neighborhood. And Terence - 4 Billion is nowhere near enough - when this all started we thought ~7 Billion would be the minimum to fix everything back exactly the way it was - while maintaining the land and streams. The fact that Maui Electric is being blamed says it all - the power lines were shut off probably 8 or so hours before the evacuation orders - they were shut down in the morning I know that much for sure. So the narrative that downed power lines were preventing escape or were the reason for the cops routing people back down Front Street is beyond a lie - its a cover up. I dont know why.....nobody knows why....but it happened. My buddy Nuku had a house right next to the Safeway and he still cant access his property without a "30 minute supervised visit" with county people - and still cant go take things from his burned property because of "EPA Safety Hazards". Its beyond a joke. I went to school with Joe Cotchetts daughter in Hillsborough - everyone in town knew that guy was essentially a liberal mafia "fixer" - its a joke that people tout him likes hes some kind of good person when hes a legit bad actor. Its bizarro world we are living in. The truth is - nobody is paying the other half- they are just biding their time until they can push through the vacation rental ban and start to really push draconian rules on property owners. Make no mistake - all the locals know without a shadow of a doubt this is not "negligence" - without being of a darker complexion its a bit difficult to fathom this - but this is purposeful. This also blew my mind - Eric spoke to an official high up in the Maui County Government - and he said there is no water crisis - the West Maui Mountains are the THIRD MOST RAINY PLACE ON EARTH - yet....the STATE of Hawaii - aka the Federal Government and Potatoe Joe Biden are the ones who call the shots when it comes to where Mauis water goes......and do you know what? They demand it goes directly into the streams and into the oceans without being harvested or irrigated for the "good of the natives" - do you see a pattern here? Its 1984 - its Satanic doublespeak and it needs to stop. Nobody has been fired - only resigned and reassigned. They will all protect each because their is a culture of silence I cannot even talk about - so believe nobody will be held accountable. Now what they are going to do - to "help the locals recover" - is to ban all short term vacation rentals - destroy the local economy all but good - and create a serfdom where there are only the locals who are completely dependent of the government and their rich overlords. This will destroy the Maui economy. IMO - their plan is for their to be no more taxpayers here in Maui - it will be a Feudal Serfdom with elites like Bezos Oprah ZuckerWeirdo owning all the resources and us "serfs" get to live for "free" so long as we pay the piper and tow their line. They are getting the money to rebuld "infrastructure" for their 15 minute city model. Incredibly sad. Hunger Games anyone?