The native side of the Kalakaua clan, Maui Loa, had backing to buy Turtle Bay from the Canadians but a certain local developer known to play rough had his feathers ruffled and put the kybosh on that. The resort land would have been added to the trust corpus of the DHHL and supplied the missing revenue needed to meet the demands of the federal law that set up native Hawaiian reservations in 1921. Hawaii is so corrupt as per the rule of a certain senator that everything is rigged by political  hacks, even to this day. Blackstone is walking into this blindly. Unless the deal cuts in the crooks, it is in trouble.....