HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Department of Interior investigators say a National Park Service employee at the USS Arizona Memorial accepted gifts from tour operators in violation of ethics regulations. ADVERTISING HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Department of Interior investigators say a
HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Department of Interior investigators say a National Park Service employee at the USS Arizona Memorial accepted gifts from tour operators in violation of ethics regulations.
The department’s inspector general said in a report summary Wednesday the gifts included a $50 jacket and golf course green fees valued at about $85.
The report says the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Hawaii declined to prosecute.
Investigators launched their probe after hearing a Park Service employee may have had improper relationships with tour operators to whom he distributed memorial tickets.
The memorial straddles a battleship that sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese bombing.
People ride boats to the memorial from a visitors’ center. Demand often exceeds the 4,350 boat tickets available each day.
