Sun hung kai suspended on friday as the corruption trial came to an end involving two billionaire brothers, i hong kongs former number two official. Walk me through what happened. There is a sentencing hearing scheduled for today so we would hear how long these men will be facing depending on what the judge decides. We are talking about hong kongs former number 2 rafael hui. The secondhighest position in hong kongs government. Also, the billionaire businessman raymond kwok and thomas kwok. Sacrede looks at whether payments and rentfree whether secret payments and rentfree properties were given. Thomas kwok was found guilty of conspiring to can commit publicing in office. It was that one charge related to a series of payments amounting to 1. 1 million. It is a drop in the ocean compared to what they are paying their lawyers. This money was actually basically to keep hui this post to sun hung kai. It is the most valuable Property Company. It is quite a big and powerful company. Rafael hu
I want to start by noting that the committee has been particularly supportive as the staff and the oversight investigation subcommittee for their work on this issue and their work with our agency we consider it to be a Real Partnership and we are very grateful for this committees support. We have received a number of referrals from this committee and we appreciate your confidence and ability to work with the employees that your office refers. So thats one thing. Its already happening. We are doing everything that we possibly can. Weve set up a priority system and we free allocated staff to handle the va employee claims. But as the numbers increase its a very hard to keep up. We were at capacity before. In the retaliation cases now it exceeds 130, and the number as i mentioned continues to increase pretty much daily. We are an agency that has 120 employees more or less. We have jurisdiction for the statute for the reemployment rights act and we are working now on a demonstration for the
It is august 19 Entertainment Commission meeting to order. Please turn off or put your phones on vibrate and all recording devises during our meeting and we want like to send sf gov tv for sending us out over the airwaves. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner perez. Here. Commissioner akers intl here. Commissioner joseph. Here. Commissioner lee. Heir. Commissioner frost. Here. Vice president hide. Present. President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of
It is august 19 Entertainment Commission meeting to order. Please turn off or put your phones on vibrate and all recording devises during our meeting and we want like to send sf gov tv for sending us out over the airwaves. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner perez. Here. Commissioner akers intl here. Commissioner joseph. Here. Commissioner lee. Heir. Commissioner frost. Here. Vice president hide. Present. President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of
A roll call please. Commissioner perez. Here. Commissioner akers intl here. Commissioner joseph. Here. Commissioner lee. Heir. Commissioner frost. Here. Vice president hide. Present. President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of changes they would like to make. All right. Absent were cake cake and commissioner lee and im not sure if liam was here so i wanted to check with that and commissioner hyde moved to continue item c to april 19 i think its august 19. I