Yamane Heads City Ethics Panel
The former acting state auditor is now the聽Honolulu Ethics Commission鈥檚 new executive director and legal counsel.
Jan Yamane is the聽new executive director and legal counsel of the .
The announcement was made by the commission Wednesday.
Yamane replaces Chuck Totto, who resigned in June after differences with commissioners and the Caldwell administration.
She will be charged with helping rebuild an ethics commission that up until this week had no one on staff to investigate complaints.
Yamane left her post聽as acting state auditor earlier this year.
Les Kondo, the former executive director of the Hawaii State聽Ethics Commission, was appointed state auditor in April.
The Hawaii Attorney General鈥檚 Office had launched an investigation into the state auditor鈥檚 office while Yamane was at the helm.
Officials have kept quiet about what the investigation entailed.
