The statement Kealoha co-defendant Gordon Shiraishi made to the Honolulu Ethics Commission and wants thrown out is the same lie he later told the FBI and a federal grand jury, the government says in its response to Shiraishi’s request.

The retired Honolulu police major, two other former members of the Honolulu Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Unit, retired Chief Louis Kealoha and Kealoha’s former deputy prosecutor wife, Katherine Kealoha, are scheduled to stand trial in U.S. District Court in March for conspiracy and obstruction. The charges accuse the defendants of framing a Kealoha relative with stealing the Kealohas’ mailbox and lying to cover up their actions.

The Shiraishi statement reconciles contradictory testimony of a CIU officer, who later admitted lying, and Louis Kealoha in the Kealoha relative’s federal criminal trial. Kealoha testified that he discovered his mailbox missing early in the morning on June 22, 2013, but didn’t tell anyone until about 9:30 a.m. Katherine Kealoha reported the mailbox missing at about 1:30 p.m.

The CIU officer testified that he retrieved the hard drive that recorded the mailbox “theft” from the Kealohas’ home surveillance system at about 9 a.m. at the instruction of his supervisor Derek Hahn, one of the other two former CIU members standing trial in March.

Shiraishi, who at the time of the mailbox incident was the CIU commander, later told the Ethics Commission, the FBI and a federal grand jury that Louis Kealoha told him about the mailbox sometime before 9 a.m. He then directed Hahn to send someone to the Kea­loha residence to retrieve the hard drive.

The government says the phone records of Shiraishi, Louis Kealoha and Hahn show a flurry of calls between them in the afternoon and evening of June 22 but none in the morning.

Shiraishi wants the court to throw out his Ethics Commission statement because he made it under threat of termination and claims the government tricked him into making false statements to the FBI and grand jury.