Honolulu officials accused in case of Kealoha retirement payment

Former Honolulu’s general manager, Roy Amemiya Jr. (left), former City Corporation counselor, Donna Leong and former chairman of the Honolulu Police Commission, Max Sword Star-Adrtiser, former general manager of Honolulu, Roy Amemiya Jr. of $ 250,000 in 2017 to the former head of the Honolulu Police, Louis Keloha, according to federal judicial documents.

Taxes are part of a. The only accusation of crime for each official is a removal from the accusations of offense insured against the former officials of the city more than three years ago.

Michael Wheat, the special prosecutor who managed the case from the American prosecutor’s office for the South District of California, withdrawn on December 31. Federal prosecutors did not say why they decided to solve a case that they took to a big jury and provided the crime drafts on December 16, 2021.

In January 2022, the former corporation counselor, Donna Yuk Lan Leong, the former chairman of the Honolulu Police Commission, Max John Sword and then, the general manager of Kirk Caldwell, Roy Keiji Amemiya Jr., entered the pleasures that were not adopted in January 2022 2017.

At a 10 -morning hearing on Tuesday, before the main judge of the American district Leslie E. Kobayashi, Sword and Leong will agree to pay a fine of $ 100,000 and serve a supervised release year as part of their pleading agreement with the US Justice Department.

Leong and Sword each signed a plea agreement for “the number in future replacement information, with a time sentence, the release of a supervised year and the restitution”, according to federal judicial documents.

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Amemiya has concluded a postponed prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors, according to the judicial documents.

The accusation against Amemiya will be modified to an offense and provided that Amemiya comply with the conditions of the agreement, the accusation against him will be rejected as long as he is not convicted of an offense.

The observance of Amemiya will depend on the “certification by the Government’s Office, the refund and a component of the Community Service”.

He has to pay a $ 50 fine and meet two years of supervised federal release. Amemiya tried to have the case in January 2022.

“Starting with December 1, 2016 and continuing until July 2020, Amemiya, Leong and Sword,” while they acted under the color of the law, they have combined, in a knowledge and will, conspire and agree with others to deprive the Honolulu, Hawaii residents, to the secure and the laws. Namin, on the day of judgment.

Amemiya, Leong and Sword are free on $ 50,000 bonds.

The trio was accused of conspiring to pay Keloha with federal and money funds from the Honolulu Police Department and avoided the review and approval of the Municipal Council.

The investigation for Kea Loha and his wife since then, the former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.

Louis Kealoha has been sentenced to seven years in prison and will have to pay back to $ 250,000.

Katherine Keloha received 13 years in prison because she led the operations that frauduted her grandmother in her house and framed her on her uncle because she stole Kealohas’ mailbox.

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