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Written by Paul Kiel and Binyamin Appelbaum for ProPublica and The Washington Post, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 . Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth. The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate f…