HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke continued her rounds of media appearances Tuesday, trying to explain why it took so long to come forward and why changes were made to campaign records that appear suspicious.
Luke was elected partly because of her reputation for honesty and transparency. That reputation is under its toughest test, even though when the case first broke, she was among the most outspoken for reform.
“So this is not something that we can just say, you know, it happened and we can move on. We have to fix it,” Luke said on in February 2022, days after the lead suspect in the bribery scandal was identified.
FBI informant recorded January 2022 meeting
What Luke didn’t know in February 2022 was that Ty Cullen, her vice chair on the House Finance Committee, had been an FBI informant since his arrest in October 2021…