Sen. Kim appeared unsatisfied with his answer, saying: "We're not talking about a small entity or a fly by night entity. We're talking about the University of Hawaii that has highly paid attorneys, highly paid staff and a whole fiscal department. Yet there were a number of policies that were violated and this could have been stopped along the way."

"Let me repeat again," said Greenwood, "We are not done with trying to take corrective action. We are disturbed by some of the findings and my guess is the board task force will be was well. I don't want to imply (people) have gotten a pass on this one. That's not true."