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HRS §707-762

Giving money or property to fund illegal high-interest loans

This section defines a crime: knowingly providing money or property to someone, even as a gift or investment, when you have good reason to believe they will use it for extortionate loans. It covers any way you give the funds, not just loans.

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The statute, as written — Financing extortionate extensions of credit. "Financing extortionate extensions of credit" includes wilfully advancing money or property, whether as a gift, as a loan, as an investment, pursuant to a

partnership or profit-sharing agreement, or otherwise to any person, with reasonable grounds to believe that it is the intention of that person to use the money or property so advanced directly or indirectly for the purpose of making extortionate extensions of credit.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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