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The Honolulu City Council voted unanimously Wednesday on the second of three readings for a measure that initially sought to end years of corruption within the city Department of Planning and Permitting.
The original bill materialized around the time a former city Department of Planning and Permitting supervisor and four other DPP employees were sentenced in connection with a lucrative bribery scheme.
Kanani Padeken is the last of six defendants to be sentenced in a bribery scandal at Honolulu's Department of Planning and Permitting.
A former city building plans examiner was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for accepting more than $28,000 in bribes to fast-track projects through the permitting process.
William Wong will serve his time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Ore.