HRS §707-762
Giving money or property to fund illegal high-interest loans
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗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
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
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.
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