Mahalo Denby.  The tragic history of the Lunalilo Trust mirrors the plight of Native Hawaiians past and present. Ka Mō‘ī William Charles Lunalilo had more lands than the Bishop Estate, but because at least six of his first nine trustees to control his holdings were members of the Committee of Safety and the subsequent Provisional Government, including the attorney who drafted his will and codicil who became associate justice of the Supreme Court Albert Francis Judd, all his lands were sold for pennies on the dollar to their cronies.  It would be satisfying justice for the beneficiaries of the Lunalilo Trust to have those lands returned to the Trust to support more elderly impoverished Hawaiians.

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