Undeterred, in 2016 Kaneshiro tried to prosecute three of the sweepstakes operators again, including Yoshimura, on 414 counts that included racketeering and money laundering.<\/p>\n
But crucially, he only picked the ones who had sued him for the return of their machines in 2012, leading to accusations of malicious prosecution.<\/p>\n
Yoshimura also believes he was targeted because he had likened Kaneshiro to John Gotti during a local TV news interview in 2013.<\/p>\n
The group was once again cleared, while the prosecution was castigated by the judge for presenting \u201ceither a pattern of negligence at the very least, or perhaps worse, bad faith.”<\/p>\n
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Three years down the line, it\u2019s payback time for Yoshimura, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to clear his name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“We went down the impeachment road,\u201d explained Yoshimura’s attorney, Keith Kiuchi, to local news. \u201cWe didn’t go down the road of \u2018oh well, let\u2019s hope you temporarily remove yourself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The federal investigation against Kaneshiro is believed to be related to the case of a retired police chief and his former deputy prosecutor wife, Louis and Katherine Kealoha, who are accused of orchestrating the framing of a relative to discredit him in a financial dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Honolulu\u2019s top prosecutor, Keith Kaneshiro — once the scourge of sweepstakes operations in the gamble-dry state of Hawaii — has had a week to forget. Under investigation for public corruption, the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu — an elected official — finally yielded to pressure to step down for the course of the federal probe, Friday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":100376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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