The Company , also called Hawaiian Syndicate , is the name given to Hawaii-based organized crime syndicate that controls criminal activity in the state from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
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Throughout the 1960s organized crime in Hawaii was controlled primarily by local Asian criminal organizations, especially the Chinese Triads, Japanese Yakuza, Korean Kkangpae and Samoan criminal outfits. The first change occurred when a local Korean citizen named George Chung formed his own criminal organization in 1962, recruiting among local Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Samoa, and natives of Hawaii. The smaller ethnic gangs all compete to control organized crime, leading to disorganized clashes, so over time Chung is able to create an environment where every gang can do business. In July 1967, Chung was shot dead in a Honolulu gambling hive.
Chung's death caused a vacuum of organized criminal activity on the islands, with crime bosses rivaling control. The Samoan mass mainly under the leadership of Alema Leota briefly took over. In 1969 Wilford Pulawa, a native Hawaiian resident and lieutenant of Leota, decided to recruit primarily among the local criminals of Hawaii's original heritage and formed a state-of-the-art crime syndicate known as the Company.
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Wilford "Popok" Pulawa
Under the leadership of Pulawa, the Company extends power over the criminals on the island, and extreme violence when necessary. The organization is primarily involved in illegal gambling, prostitution in island resort hotels, extortion of local unions, extortion of local businesses both legal and illegal and in large-scale illegal trades of white Chinese heroin. Under the leadership of Pulawa, organizations extorted awards from anyone who wanted to do business in Hawaii, such as landmine members, betting and gambling. The company was able to commit some of its criminal controls to the Hawaiian community on the mainland, especially in Nevada and California. The syndicates make connections with figures in the American mafia, but in some other cases also have competition with some of them. Rumor has it that when two active mafia members in Las Vegas were sent to Hawaii to teach local gang leaders in Hawaii, a lesson for muscle on an illegal gambling racket in Nevada, the Company killed two mobster thugs and restored their mutilated bodies. to the mainland behind the trunk with the note attached: "Delicious, send more."
The Pulawa government ended in 1973 when he began investing criminal money in the real estate business. When law enforcement gets wind of Pulawa's plans to buy some resort facilities in California, they can catch him for tax evasion. He was imprisoned in 1975 and he was sentenced to serve 24 years in federal prison, much of which he serves on McNeil Island in Washington. He was released in 1984 and returned to the island to engage in labor issues, but while other heavyweights within the Company began fighting for control of large criminal organizations that have included him in many aspects of Hawaiian life, such as entertainment, fishing industry, organized labor, as well as Hawaiian cultural and rights groups.
Year after Year
When the leadership of Pulawa ended, the Company became more vulnerable to disputes as some lieutenants and criminal families competed for leadership. Names in Hawaii's underworld such as Joseph's family, Ronald Kainalu Ching and Henry Huihui are all becoming increasingly known in criminal activity and murder cases.
Charles Marsland, a city prosecutor whose 19-year-old son's murder allegedly linked to organized crime, is out to deal a heavy blow to the underworld. In 1984, Marsland organized crime raid forces, in collaboration with federal investigators, were able to capture Huihui and Ching. The two gangsters decided to work together and Huihui turned informants to the federal government. Both are brought into contact with countless criminal and murderous activities, and bring others down with them. Huihui was indicted in April 1984 on federal extortion charges against gambling and extortion, as well as allegations of state assassination and Ching was sentenced to four terms of life for four murders in August 1985.
The Joseph family and their main man, Charlie Stevens, who controlled organized crime along Waianae Beach, remained active until the early 1990s. In 1991, Stevens was arrested on charges of criminal activity such as illegal gambling, extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking and murder. In May 1993, Stevens was sentenced to 20 years without parole.
The indictments of several powerful members of the Company terminate the organizational powers for state organized crime on the island. The remnants of syndicates and links, the younger Hawaiian Native criminals are still active and holding power over the underworld of the island, but the total power that permeates across the country is a thing of the past. Today, organized crime in Hawaii is closer to what happened in the 1960s with different ethnic organized crime groups such as the Triad, Yakuza, Kkpapae, Samoa's criminal organizations and Hawaiian crime syndicates, including the Company's remnants, all criminal business operations they're in the state.
Further reading
- J.Ryan, Hell-Bent: One Person Crusade to Destroy Hawaiian Mob , Lyons Press, 2014. 304 pgs.
See also
- Crime in Hawaii
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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