Maui report slow release may be related to Hawaiian Electric settlement, CB says

Maui County still has not released the long-awaited federal investigative report on the cause and origin of the deadly Aug. 8 Lahaina fire and the county said last week that it needs “additional formatting,” noted Civil Beat, which adds: “You’re probably thinking, as The Sunshine Blog is, that this is really just good old-fashioned stalling. Could it, The Blog wonders, have anything to do with a rumored about-to-break multibillion-dollar settlement in the zillion lawsuits against Maui County, Hawaiian Electric Co. and a bunch of other defendants?” Civil Beat reported on June 28 that federal officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had finished up work on the report that is supposed to finally reveal the cause and origin of the wildfire, the publication noted.