The latest news coverage about disgraced Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and former Honolulu deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.
The city’s $2.85 million settlement of a civil lawsuit with Gerard Puana, a victim in the Kealoha corruption scandal, is the final case of its kind filed by Puana against the city, officials say. Read more
The City and County of Honolulu has settled a civil lawsuit with Gerard Puana, the victim of the Kealoha corruption and bribery scandal, in the amount of $2.85 million. Read more
The attorney for the founder of a Honolulu engineering company accused of conspiring with the former city prosecuting attorney to frame an ex-employee for theft in exchange for campaign donations was arrested by federal agents in California on Tuesday. Read more
Sheri Jean Tanaka, who represents Mitsunaga & Associates or MAI, was named in a first superseding indictment unsealed this morning in federal court. Read more
A federal judge sentenced a Hawaii island pain doctor to 7-1/2 years in prison Monday after he was found guilty in April of pushing more than 7,000 oxycodone pills into the Hawaii island and Oahu communities from about 2013 through 2017. Read more
Logan, a 20-year HPD veteran before joining the military, is the grandson of a New York City police officer and two of his brothers served in the department. Read more
Puana was found guilty on 38 counts of distributing and dispensing oxycodone and a one count of distributing and dispensing fentanyl. Read more
The 38-year-old woman was a family member of Joshua N. McPeek, who was arrested early Wednesday. Read more
Former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha designated her brother’s childhood friend Christopher McKinney as a confidential informant to conceal ties both men had to an alleged drug dealer and a police officer targeted for prosecution, according to testimony Friday in U.S. District Court. Read more
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The now-imprisoned Katherine Kealoha pleaded guilty to using her job to shield her brother from an investigation and accepting prescriptions that she traded for cocaine. Read more
Rudolph Puana’s drug-dealing trial on 53 other counts began today with jury selection. Read more
Donna Leong, the city’s corporation counsel from 2013 t0 2019, did not lie to FBI agents about who she talked to and how the Kealoha settlement was assembled, her attorney affirmed this afternoon. Read more
A federal judge granted a protective order sought by the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent the public release of evidence gathered by investigators probing a $250,000 retirement settlement to former police Chief Louis Kealoha. Read more
Nelson Koyanagi, former director of the city Department of Budget and Fiscal Services, has knowledge that the 2017 Kealoha settlement did not require City Council review and approval and was structured similar to settlements with other city department heads, defense attorneys declared. Read more
Attorneys representing two former top city officials — both accused of violating federal law by orchestrating the $250,000 retirement settlement for former Police Chief Louis Kealoha — are attempting to introduce evidence they believe exonerates their clients. Read more
Video of former city Corporation Counsel Donna Leong being handcuffed and perp-walked into FBI offices to be served a federal conspiracy indictment epitomized a sorry period of city governance. Read more
Two of former Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s closest cabinet members — former managing director Roy Amemiya and former Corporation Counsel Donna Leong — and well-known lobbyist Max Sword, the former Honolulu Police Commission chairman, all had 6:30 a.m. meetings with the FBI last week to be arrested. Read more
Former city managing director Roy Amemiya, former Corporation Counsel Donna Leong and former Honolulu Police Commission Chairman Max Sword are in the custody of federal agents today. Read more
Dr. Rudolph Puana is scheduled to go to trial in March for drug-dealing allegations. Read more
Attorneys said during a hearing on Thursday they agreed to postpone the trial of Dr. Rudolph Puana from December to March. Read more
