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Former associate legal counsel named acting city ethics chief

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The Honolulu Ethics Commission this afternoon named Laurie Wong-Nowinski as acting executive director.

Longtime director Chuck Totto resigned three weeks ago, leaving the office with no director, associate legal counsel or investigator and only two clerical staffers.

Wong-Nowinski had been Totto’s associate legal counsel, his second-in-command, but resigned amid controversy effective April 1.

The appointment was announced in a release issued late this afternoon by the commission. It is effective Aug. 1.

At its meeting last week, the commission voted to give its chairwoman, Victoria Marks, the authority to offer a contract to someone, but Marks and other members declined to say to whom or for what position.

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