Department of Justice

Three years ago, a county housing story published by the monthly newsletter Environment Hawaiʻi caught the eye of federal law enforcement agents. An FBI investigation led to indictments of several Hawaiʻi Island residents.

The Justice Department is suing four states over climate action. The office argued in filings Wednesday that pending lawsuits out of Hawaiʻi and Michigan against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change would infringe on the federal government's authority.

A new executive order from President Donald Trump that's part of his effort to invigorate energy production launches the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to court against state laws aimed at slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels.

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.

The cause of death for a convicted crime boss who died at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu has been released.

A federal jury found Michael Miske Jr. guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murder, and 11 other felony charges in July.

A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaiʻi on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago.

A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI who received cash, golf clubs and other expensive gifts in exchange for spying for China faces a decade in prison if a U.S. judge approves his plea agreement. Seventy-one-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma is due in U.S. District Court in Hawaiʻi on Wednesday.

Michael J. Miske Jr. was ordered to forfeit assets, including cash from bank accounts and vehicles, worth more than $20 million.

Jurors agreed with federal prosecutors, finding him guilty of the most serious charges against him, including orchestrating the kidnapping and murder-for-hire of Johnathan Fraser, who Miske blamed for his son's death in a car crash.