April 20, 2006

An Investigation Into the Bishop Estate's Governance Scandal

By M.J. Prest

NEW BOOKS

Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust
by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth

When the trustees of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate were accused of gross incompetence and fraud in 1997, a scandal erupted over the governance of one of America's wealthiest charities. This book, by Samuel P. King, a senior U.S. district-court judge in