Louis Kealoha

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.

Police officers are eligible for taxpayer-funded representation if they are performing their job duties to benefit the public, but the court said that former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha was not acting in any way to perform his duties.

The City and County of Honolulu continues to fight a 2019 decision by the Honolulu Police Commission to pay for former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha's criminal defense. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.

A U.S. grand jury has indicted Honolulu’s former top prosecutor and four others. The charges allege that employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed Keith Kaneshiro with campaign donations in exchange for Kaneshiro’s prosecution of a former company employee. All five defendants pleaded not guilty and were released on $50,000 bail.

Three indicted former Honolulu officials will be tried by a jury on allegations they conspired to hide the source of public funds used to get ex-police chief Louis Kealoha to retire during a corruption investigation.

Former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said he is confident in the innocence of three people who were officials when he was in office. The three have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to hide the source of public funds used to get former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha to retire during a corruption investigation.

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.