On June 15, 2006 members of the Kauai County Council abused their power by calling for a politically motivated investigation of what they claimed was the intentional alteration of a government document for the purposes of conspiring to make the Kauai County Council "look bad".
The target of the conspiracy was King (KC) Lum Kauai’s former Police Chief and a candidate for Kauai County Council.
On the eve of the primary county election in which former police chief King (K.C.) Lum was running for a seat on the Kaua'i County Council, seven investigators with the state Attorney General’s office seized computer equipment from Lum’s home.
The charge against Lum of intentionally altering a government document and the AG’s decision to raid Lum's home on the eve of the primary election received extensive media coverage and undermined Lum’s bid for a seat on the council.
Lum running on a platform of open and transparent government finished in tenth place.
After a six month investigation by the State Attorney General's office, and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars spent by the County of Kauai Lum's property was returned to him and the investigation concluded.
As many suspected from the beginning it was a sheet feed error. When the document was scanned two pages accidentally overlapped and two paragraphs were omitted, making a three-page document a two-page document.
This video is a portion of that June 15, 2006 meeting. It demonstrates a political abuse of power and how a sheet feed error can be transformed into a conspiracy to damage a political opponent’s chances of being elected.
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