'A blemish in his sanctuary': the battle behind Mark Zuckerberg's Hawaii estate

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: 'A blemish in his sanctuary': the battle behind Mark Zuckerberg's Hawaii estate
> Date: January 18, 2019 10:53:15 JST
> To: Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
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> The Facebook CEO’s involvement in a family dispute over four small parcels of land worries many on an island where 
> longtime residents have lost land to wealthy newcomers
> EXCERPT:
> On 22 December 2016, a retired professor of Hawaiian studies named Carlos Andrade sent a letter to dozens of his 
> relatives informing them that he was about to sue them.
>
> The relatives were among hundreds of partial owners of four small parcels of land on the island of Kauai, the legacy 
> of a shared ancestor named Manuel Rapozo. A neighboring landowner, Northshore Kalo LLC, was willing to pay the legal 
> fees to clear up the title on the property – enabling Andrade to take full ownership and compensate his fellow 
> descendants for their shares.
>
> It wasn’t until nearly a month later that the Honolulu Star-Advertiser 
> <https://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-zuckerberg-sues-to-force-land-sales/?HSA=74dae150a1d9f99e2592d0eac31ea430d01f35d5>
>  broke the news that Northshore Kalo LLC was not a taro farm, as some had assumed (“kalo” means “taro” in Hawaiian), 
> but a shell corporation controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder was pursuing eight separate lawsuits 
> related to parcels of land that, like the Rapozo parcels, were surrounded by his 700-acre Kauai estate.
>
> Those who had been sued had a choice: they could sell their partial shares or try to outbid a billionaire in a public 
> auction. If they lost, they could be forced to pay Zuckerberg’s legal fees...
> [...]
> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-estate-kauai-land-rights-dispute 
> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/mark-zuckerberg-hawaii-estate-kauai-land-rights-dispute>
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> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com <mailto:Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com>
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