Time running out on Amfac loan

By Andrew Gomes
Advertiser Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
A foreclosure case to take over two Maui golf courses is moving ahead while negotiations continue between the state Employees' Retirement System and an Amfac Hawaii LLC subsidiary over a $66 million loan the company is required to pay off June 30.

The retirement system, a multibillion-dollar pension fund for Hawai'i's state and county government employees, made the loan in 1991. It has had problems collecting interest payments since 1995.

Last August, fund officials filed a foreclosure lawsuit to take over two Maui golf courses used as collateral for the loan, but entered into a "standstill agreement" in which the case was put on hold for six months.

The waiting period expired March 26.

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