Gerard Puana, the man at the center of the Louis and Katherine Kealoha corruption case, was arrested and charged this week with terroristic threatening.
Democrats have such a complete lock on power in Hawaii and Republicans are so marginalized that there may be little political fallout from even these egregious cases.
Daniel Sellers was indicted along with the former HPD police chief and his prosecutor wife in 2017. After taking a plea deal, he was fired by the department.
The yearslong federal investigation into Katherine and Louis Kealoha resulted in prison sentences for both. But 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.