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Two down, two to go, to close the chapter on one of Hawaii’s worst public corruption scandals.
Katherine Kealoha and her estranged husband, Louis, will spend 13 years and seven years in prison, respectively, for misusing her deputy prosecutor position and his police chief authority in a scheme to enrich themselves. Their Monday sentencings were at or near the maximums sought by prosecutors.
Today, the last two former police officers convicted in the scheme will be sentenced: Derek Wayne Hahn and “Bobby” Minh-Hung Nguyen. Though Katherine Kealoha had pleaded for leniency for her co-conspirators, saying they “do not deserve to go to prison,” many here would disagree.