A 1997 essay called "Broken Trust" led a Hawaii court to remove the Bishop Estate trustees, who were paid up to $900,000 a year

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, last of the Kamehameha line, left about 375,000 acres in trust in her 1883 will to run schools for Hawaiian children. Justices of the Hawaii Supreme Court chose the trustees. Many were political insiders, and by 1997 each was paid $800,000 to $900,000 a year. On 9 August 1997 five community leaders, including retired judges Walter Heen and Samuel King and law professor Randall Roth, published "Broken Trust" in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. They accused the trustees of self-dealing and micromanagement and asked for a state investigation. Governor Ben Cayetano ordered Attorney General Margery Bronster to investigate. On 10 September 1997 she reported that beneficiaries' rights "may be at substantial risk." She sought removal of trustees Lokelani Lindsey, Richard Wong and Henry Peters. On 6 May 1999, after a six-month trial, the probate court permanently removed Lindsey. The next day it temporarily removed Wong, Peters and Gerard Jervis; Oswald Stender resigned. The state Senate refused to reconfirm Bronster on 28 April 1999, 14 to 11. The IRS had threatened the trust's tax exemption^†. The trust, renamed Kamehameha Schools, is Hawaii's largest private landowner^†.