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A woman accused with her husband of living in Hawaiʻi under the stolen identities of dead babies will remain behind bars. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Mansfield denied her request to be released.
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U.S. prosecutors who introduced Russian spy intrigue into a case of a couple accused of living for decades in Hawaiʻi under stolen identities are now saying they don’t want jurors to hear about the foreign uniforms the couple was photographed in.
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Two Native Hawaiian men sentenced to prison for a hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man have agreed to pay more than $25,000 in restitution.
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A former state lawmaker has been sentenced to two years in prison in a federal corruption case that’s drawn attention to a perennial problem in the islands: the tens of thousands of cesspools that release 50 million gallons of raw sewage into the state’s pristine waters every day.
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A federal prison term was handed down to the wife of a Hawaiʻi labor union’s former business manager who was convicted of fixing a union vote to raise dues.
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Two Native Hawaiian men have been sentenced to years in prison for a federal hate crime conviction in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move to a remote, traditional fishing village on Maui. His injuries included a concussion, two broken ribs and head trauma.
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A former Maui County official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting $2 million in bribes from a Honolulu businessman in one of the biggest bribery cases in Hawaiʻi history.
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For the past year and a half since taking over as agent-in-charge of the FBI in the Pacific region, Steven Merrill has made an effort to raise the profile of the agency. Merrill spoke to The Conversation about his latest recruiting effort.
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Fighting public corruption continues to be a high priority for the FBI. Its Honolulu office and other federal partners have helped ferret out corruption among Hawaiʻi officials from a former police chief to a former Senate president.
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Prosecutors say Nickie Mali Lum Davis and others tried to use back channels to influence U.S. government officials to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund — and to attempt to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S.