Hawaii power couple convicted in plot to hide fraud
Posted Jun 27, 2019 10:53:30 PM.
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HONOLULU — A jury has found a former Honolulu prosecutor and her now-retired police chief husband guilty in a plot to frame a relative to silence him from revealing fraud that financed their lavish lifestyle.
The verdict came Thursday in what has been described as Hawaii’s biggest corruption case.
Neither Katherine nor Louis Kealoha testified during the closely watched trial. Their defence attorneys argued the case was built on weak and circumstantial evidence.
They were on trial over allegations they conspired with officers to frame her uncle for stealing their home mailbox. Prosecutors say the Kealohas wanted to discredit their relative in a lawsuit saying Katherine Kealoha stole money from the uncle and his mother in a mortgage scheme.
The Associated Press
