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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- August 26, 2008
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Hawaii
Union leader's status in limbo
The candidate who won the most votes to head the Laborers' International Union Local 368 was deemed ineligible for the position by the U.S. Department of Labor in June.
Oliver Kupau III, a former union executive, won 75 percent of the votes on Friday for the position of business manager, beating Bill Naone, who took 25 percent of the votes.
But Kupau, who was part of a ring that bribed a former police officer for illegal cockfighting and gambling activities in Ewa and Nanakuli, is prohibited from holding union office or employment because of a 2002 money-laundering conviction, according to a letter from Bruce Edgington, district director of the U.S. ...