The Honolulu Ethics commission has doled out fines to Rod Tam and a former deputy police chief who pulled some strings — and paid several officers overtime — to put on a special weekend show-and-tell event for his son’s scouting troupe. 

Inside Honolulu has the scoop:

Looks like the Honolulu Ethics Commission wasn’t quite finished with former councilman Rod Tam.

On Wednesday, the commission announced it was fining Tam $813.53 for his use of city funds to buy 114 “appreciation lunches” for employees decorating Honolulu Hale and for paying for a Chinese dinner for foreign delegates.

Tam was convicted of criminal charges and fined by the city for similar inappropriate expenditures of taxpayer dollars while he was a council member.

He agreed to pay back $13,700 to the as part of a settlement agreement with the city ethics commission.

In addition to fining Tam, the Honolulu Ethics Commission announced it will make former Deputy Police Chief Delbert Tatsuyama pay the city $2,673.49 for overtime expenses officers incurred while putting on an event for his son’s Cub Scout troupe.

According to the ethics commission, 26 officers showed up to the event that had 28 Cub Scouts and 27 parents.

Tatsuyama had also asked for officers of the HPD Special Services Division to “showcase” the department’s helicopter, bomb disposal robots, armored vehicle and canine unit.

You can read more about Tam’s ethics violation here. To learn more about Tatsuyama’s violation click here.

—Nick Grube