Waimana Enterprises, founded by Al Hee, was hit with utility violations and previously got wrapped up in a fraud case.

The telecommunications company that provided broadband internet and telephone service to thousands of rural Hawaiian homesteaders across the state since the mid-1990s was stripped of its operating license Monday after years of service disruptions and other violations, including a federal fraud case that sent the company’s founder to prison.

Waimana Enterprises owes DHHL more than $900,000 in unpaid license fees, according to a letter from the department sent in August. Last year one of its subsidiaries abruptly cut services to homesteaders.

Those are just the most recent violations of the company’s operating license. About a decade ago, Waimana and its affiliates “enter

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