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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Friday, June 6, 2008

Sugar Bowl travel list still incomplete

 •  Lawmakers want to see UH travel list
 •  Payback could be hefty if wrongdoing is found

Advertiser Staff

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Expenses for the University of Hawai'i football team's travel party to New Orleans came out to an estimated $1.9 million.

ADVERTISER LIBRARY PHOTO | Jan. 2, 2008

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Of the 550 people that the University of Hawai'i said was its official travel party for the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, 45 names were redacted in records released to The Honolulu Advertiser on March 13 under the state's open records law.

Expenses for the official travel party were reported as an estimated $1.9 million, and the list that was released by the university did not include at least six people who UH said had paid their own way to the Jan. 1 game against Georgia.

UH released the list on the day The Advertiser filed a lawsuit to obtain travel records based on UH's refusal to produce public records in a timely manner and challenging its authority to remove names.

The list did not include specific titles for those named. The state Ethics Commission is trying to determine who may not have been eligible to take the trip at UH expense. The list below contains titles or job descriptions that The Advertiser could verify.