Katherine Kealoha

Two former Honolulu officials are expected to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in a public corruption probe tied to a $250,000 payout to the now-jailed former police chief Louis Kealoha. A third official has entered a deferred-prosecution agreement.

See nothing, hear nothing, say nothing. Hawaiʻi has seen a long list of indictments and convictions of public workers and elected leaders, but what about corruption of another kind? Speaking to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz, University of Hawaiʻi Professor of Law Emeritus Randall Roth shared his thoughts on Hawaiʻi's "non-criminal corruption" — willful blindness to wrongdoing.

A jury has found the pain physician brother of a former Hawaiʻi prosecutor imprisoned in a corruption case guilty of prescribing oxycodone to his friends so that they could sell the pills for cash.

The pain physician brother of a former Hawaiʻi prosecutor imprisoned in a corruption case is pleading guilty to one charge. Rudolph Puana is admitting to being an addict in possession of a firearm.

Three former high-ranking Honolulu officials were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to hide the source of public funds used to get then-Police Chief Louis Kealoha to retire amid a corruption investigation. They pleaded not guilty, HPR’s Scott Kim reports.

A judge has granted a request for there to be no mention of the “opioid epidemic” at a trial against the pain physician brother of a former Hawaiʻi prosecutor imprisoned in a corruption case that also took down her former police chief husband.

The yearslong federal investigation into Katherine and Louis Kealoha resulted in prison sentences for both. For federal public defender Alexander Silvert, the story begins with an innocent man who insisted he was being framed. Silvert, who retired last October, says his new book wrote itself as he began detailing the drawn-out drama and the interagency tensions at play.

A new book digs into the drama of the Kealoha case, a local artist uses music to raise awareness about domestic violence, and football fans rejoice over the weekend return to in-person games.

The pandemic is postponing a drug-dealing trial against the physician brother of a former Honolulu prosecutor imprisoned in a corruption case that also took down her ex-police chief husband.

A drug-dealing trial against the pain physician brother of a former Hawaii prosecutor convicted in a corruption case is delayed because potential jurors will have to wear masks.