Jury finds Honolulu’s former top prosecutor and 5 others not guilty in a federal bribery case

By The Associated PressHonolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro talks to The Associated Press in Honolulu, March 2, 2016. A jury found Honolulu's former top prosecutor, Kaneshiro, not guilty, Friday, May 17, 2024, in a bribery case that alleged employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed him with campaign donations in exchange for his prosecution of a former company employee.

A U.S. grand jury indicted former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and five others in 2022. The indictment alleged that Mitsunaga & Associates employees and an attorney contributed more than $45,000 to Kaneshiro’s reelection campaigns between October 2012 and October 2016. The former employee targeted with prosecution had been a project architect at Mitsunaga & Associates for 15 years when she was fired without explanation on the same day she expressed disagreement with claims the CEO made against her, court documents say.

His attorney, Birney Bervar, told The Associated Press, “The first day I looked at this case I didn’t feel there was sufficient evidence of bribery.”

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