[1][2] Chung's death led to a power vacuum of organized criminal activity in the islands, with crime bosses rivaling over control.
Under Pulawa, the organization extorted a tribute from anyone wanting to do business in Hawaii, such as mainland mafia members, bookmakers, and gambling operators.
Rumor has it that when once two Chicago mobsters active in Las Vegas were sent to Hawaii to teach a local Hawaiian gang leader a lesson for muscling in on illegal gambling rackets in Nevada, The Company killed the two mob thugs and returned their chopped-up bodies to the mainland in the back of a trunk with a note attached: "Delicious, send more.
Names in the Hawaiian underworld such as the Joseph family, Ronald Kainalu Ching, and Henry Huihui all became increasingly well known in criminal activities and murder cases.
Charles Marsland, a Honolulu city prosecutor whose 19-year-old son's murder was supposedly tied to organized crime, set out to deal a heavy blow to the underworld.
[4] The Joseph family and their main man Charlie Stevens, who controlled organized crime along the Waianae Coast, stayed active until the beginning of the 1990s.
In 1991, Stevens was arrested on charges of criminal activities such as illegal gambling, extortion, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and murder.