Inside Hawaii’s Pay-To-Play Culture With Reporter Blaze Lovell

We spent a year investigating money in Hawaii politics as part of a collaboration with The New York Times.

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We spent a year investigating money in Hawaii politics as part of a collaboration with The New York Times.

Reporter Blaze Lovell shares more about the anonymous tip that helped him unearth important details about late-night parties where Hawaii politicians raked in campaign contributions and what it takes to pull off an investigation of this scale.

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