12-20-2020, 06:40 PM
Apparently, she failed to disclose her interest in the (fake) non-profit as well as sent Federal CARES money from her council office, to the (fake) non-profit. I say fake because even the executive director of the entity admits that it is not a non-profit. They are "working on it".
From the article:
"Puna Councilwoman Ashley Kierkiewicz steered taxpayer money to a not-yet nonprofit corporation on whose board she sits, records show.
Kierkiewicz gave $63,000 to the nonprofit Hawaii Rise Foundation, earmarked for Vibrant Hawaii, a corporation Kierkiewicz helped form and where she currently serves as an unpaid director."
And:
"Kierkiewicz did not disclose her relationship with Vibrant Hawaii on her annual financial report filed Jan. 31 with the Office of the County Clerk, as required by law. On a subsequent report filed Tuesday after West Hawaii Today started asking questions, she disclosed she served on the leadership council for the organization from September 2019 until September 2020, and then on the board from October 2020 to the present time."
Link to article:
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2020/12/...res-funds/
Should she resign, now?
From the article:
"Puna Councilwoman Ashley Kierkiewicz steered taxpayer money to a not-yet nonprofit corporation on whose board she sits, records show.
Kierkiewicz gave $63,000 to the nonprofit Hawaii Rise Foundation, earmarked for Vibrant Hawaii, a corporation Kierkiewicz helped form and where she currently serves as an unpaid director."
And:
"Kierkiewicz did not disclose her relationship with Vibrant Hawaii on her annual financial report filed Jan. 31 with the Office of the County Clerk, as required by law. On a subsequent report filed Tuesday after West Hawaii Today started asking questions, she disclosed she served on the leadership council for the organization from September 2019 until September 2020, and then on the board from October 2020 to the present time."
Link to article:
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2020/12/...res-funds/
Should she resign, now?