The latest news coverage about disgraced Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and former Honolulu deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.
Katherine Kealoha’s 99-year-old grandmother — recovering from one surgery and in need of another — will give her testimony one month ahead of a conspiracy and obstruction trial for her granddaughter and grandson-in-law, retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, and three former police officers. Read more
A 99-year-old woman who U.S. prosecutors have described as a key witness in the Kealoha corruption investigation will provide early testimony that jurors will see if she’s unavailable for trial, a judge ruled today. Read more
Should taxpayers be tapped to pay for former Police Chief Louis Kealoha’s legal expenses in the so-called mailbox case? Read more
Key Honolulu City Council members want the city Police Commission to reverse its approval of the use of taxpayer money to pay for former Police Chief Louis Kealoha’s legal expenses. Read more
Many reviewing the media reports concerning former Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, Katherine Kealoha, have already concluded that they must be guilty. Why bother to waste time with an actual trial? Read more
U.S. prosecutors worry a 99-year-old woman central to establishing the motive behind corruption-related charges against her granddaughter won’t be available to testify at trial. Read more
Judge J. Michael Seabright approved the sale of their home today after a buyer offered $1.3 million in cash. Read more
A federal judge granted part of a motion filed by federal prosecutors to admit certain evidence of the motive by the former police chief and his former deputy prosecutor wife to frame a relative for the theft of their mailbox. Read more
An attorney for former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha on Wednesday urged the Police Commission to use taxpayer money to pay for the lawyers representing him in two federal criminal cases. Read more
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Former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha has gotten another trial delayed for medical reasons. This time it is to undergo treatment for an undisclosed cancer. Read more
U.S. District Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright today postponed the conspiracy and obstruction trial for Katherine Kealoha, her husband, retired Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, and three former members of the HPD’s Criminal Intelligence Unit to May 15. Read more
The FBI says former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha “participated in recreational cocaine use” with her brother and others involved with them in a drug distribution conspiracy. Read more
Hawaii Central Federal Credit Union sued for foreclosure last February claiming that the Kealohas stopped paying off their mortgage after a federal grand jury indicted them in October 2017 on conspiracy, obstruction and bank fraud charges. Read more
Former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha sent secret messages of support to a defendant in a drug-dealing case Kealoha was prosecuting, according to documents released Wednesday by federal prosecutors. Read more
The two are charged in a case of distributing prescription opioids and other drugs, and conspiracy to cover up the alleged crime. Read more
A federal grand jury charged Kealoha and her brother, Dr. Rudolph Puana, who is an anesthesiologist and pain doctor, of conspiring with others to distribute prescription pain medication oxycodone and fentanyl and the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam. Read more
The indictment, which a grand jury returned Thursday, accuses Kealoha of conspiring with her physician brother and others to improperly distribute prescription pain and anti-anxiety drugs. Read more
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. Read more
Lower-ranking police officers asked to be subpoenaed for the Honolulu Ethics Commission’s investigation into then- Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his then- deputy prosecutor wife, Katherine Kealoha, according to documents the Kealohas recently disclosed in their upcoming federal conspiracy and obstruction trial. Read more
A federal judge Friday denied a request by former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha to postpone her upcoming trial because of the partial government shutdown, even guaranteeing that everybody working on the case will get paid. Read more
Almost all the bills submitted to date in the case have been paid, and lawyers tend to be paid on a lagging basis anyway, the judge says. Read more
