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Posted: Friday, September 14th, 2012 9:07 AM HST

UH Probe widens

By Ken Hupp - 67AM KPUA News

The State Senate's investigation into UH's Stevie Wonder concert fiasco and its aftermath is expanding in scope and could continue for several weeks. State senators have asked Board of Regents Chairman Eric Martinson, UH President M.R.C. Greenwood, former Athletics Director Jim Donovan, former UH Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw and the lawyers who worked on the UH investigation to testify at a special hearing on September 24th. Senate Accountability Committee Chair Donna Mercado Kim has also asked for a list of documents including outside contracts for UH public relations, all UH PR positions and salaries and 12 years worth of buyouts or severance payments for employees who've left UH. Kim has tentatively scheduled a second hearing for October 2nd