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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.
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A former Maui County official and the Honolulu businessman who paid him $2 million in bribes in exchange for more than $19 million in wastewater contracts each pleaded guilty to one count of honest services wire fraud. They entered their pleas on Monday in one of the largest bribery cases ever prosecuted in Hawaiʻi.
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Former Maui County official Stewart Stant has been charged alongside Honolulu wastewater businessman Milton Choy in a bribery scheme. Both will be arraigned on Monday. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.
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The Hawaiʻi County Council has forged ahead with an audit into how its Office of Housing and Community Development issues and uses affordable housing credits.
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The founder of the Hawaiʻi Proud Boys chapter and a Texas man who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and posed for a picture in front of a door on which one of them had written “Murder the Media,” each pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge in connection with the riot.
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The founder of the Hawaiʻi chapter of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys intends to plead guilty to charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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A U.S. judge is upholding a previous ruling to detain a Hawaiʻi couple accused of stealing identities of dead babies. The judge says the case is unique because it's not known why the couple allegedly lived under stolen identities for decades.
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Earlier this month, Hawaiʻi County Council member Holeka Goro Inaba introduced a resolution for an audit into the county’s affordable housing credits after state and federal investigators indicted four people in an affordable housing scheme.
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The wife of a U.S. defense contractor, who together are charged in Hawaiʻi federal court with stealing the identities of two deceased Texas infants and living under their names for three decades, says she's not the person prosecutors say she is.
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The FBI last week detailed an $11 million affordable housing scheme on Hawaiʻi Island that led to four indictments. The feds credited the nonprofit news organization Environment Hawaiʻi for flagging the case. Editor Patricia Tummons spoke with The Conversation about getting the story.