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HONOLULU The bulk of the money from the foreclosure sale of a house owned by a former Honolulu police chief and his estranged wife convicted of conspiracy must go to the relatives they bilked, a U.S. judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright granted a magistrate judge s findings on what to do with about $63,000 leftover from the $1.3 million sale of a home in east Honolulu owned by Louis Kealoha, who retired as police chief in the midst of a federal corruption investigation, and his wife Katherine Kealoha, a former deputy prosecutor.
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Correction: Hawaii Corruption-House story
April 27, 2021 GMT
HONOLULU (AP) In a story April 26, 2021, about distribution of money from the foreclosure sale of a house owned by a former Honolulu police chief and his estranged wife convicted of conspiracy, The Associated Press, relying on court documents, erroneously reported the name of a credit union. It is Hawaii Central Federal Credit Union, not Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union.
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Legal battle brewing over portion of proceeds from sale of Kealohasâ home
Legal battle brewing over the leftover money from the sale of the Kealoha home By Lynn Kawano | January 7, 2021 at 6:08 PM HST - Updated January 7 at 9:15 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Louis and Katherine Kealohasâ foreclosed home could pit a financial institution against two of their victims.
The Hawaii Central Federal Credit Union filed a court document late last month asking for money leftover from the sale to pay for legal fees. But some are calling for the money to be directed to Ransen and Ariana Taito, siblings who lost their father when they were children.