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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.
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Nick Ochs, the founder of the Proud Boys Hawaiʻi chapter, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol. Several others were charged, including Nicholas DeCarlo, who posted photos on social media alongside Ochs.
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A jury has found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a white man. Christopher Kunzelman says he was beaten while trying to fix up a home he purchased in a remote Maui village.
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A trial is underway for two Native Hawaiian men charged with a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man who bought a house in their remote village on Maui.
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A former Junior ROTC instructor has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for sexually exploiting one of his Kauaʻi high school students.
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Correctional facilities across Hawaiʻi face staffing shortages and oftentimes, overpopulation. HPR’s Sabrina Bodon reports on the state’s audit into staffing, and how low staffing is being handled at Oʻahu Community Correctional Center.
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A former Honolulu building plans examiner has pleaded guilty to all charges in an indictment accusing him of participating in a scheme to take bribes in exchange for expediting projects.
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A 52-year-old Hawaiʻi man has been indicted on multiple counts after he allegedly forced a 15-year-old girl to tie up her boyfriend, then kidnapped and sexually assaulted her and forced her to smoke meth.
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A former deputy Nevada attorney general accused of a 1972 killing in Honolulu says he wants to fight his extradition to Hawaiʻi. 77-year-old Tudor Chirila told a judge in Reno Wednesday he believes his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested last week.