A 74-year-old Maui physician will give up his medical license as part of an agreement to plead guilty after he was arrested by federal agents for illegally prescribing drugs.
The former office manager and bookkeeper of the Mountain Slope Water Inc. who embezzled more than $50,000 to fuel an opioid addiction was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.
A joint House and Senate committee Friday unanimously endorsed another bill aimed at rooting out political corruption by making it a Class C felony for committing a crime of “official misconduct.”
A former state lawmaker is expected in court for sentencing in a federal corruption case that’s drawn attention to a perennial problem in the islands: the tens of thousands of cesspools that release 50 million gallons of raw sewage into the state’s pristine waters every day.
A federal judge rejected an ex-lawmaker’s request for a 15-month sentence after he pleaded guilty to taking $30,000 in bribes in casino chips and cash over a seven-year period and sentenced him to two years in federal prison and fined him $25,000.