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A jury announced not guilty verdicts Friday in a yearslong bribery case against Honolulu's former top prosecutor and five people associated with the engineering and architectural firm Mitsunaga & Associates.
The investigation was revealed as Sheri Tanaka is awaiting trial on charges that she conspired to bribe a former Honolulu prosecutor.
At a bail review hearing, the conditions of Sheri Tanaka's pretrial release could be modified, or she could be sent to jail to await trial.
The other shoe has dropped on Federal Judge Michael Seabright’s abrupt recusal from the long-awaited bribery trial of former city Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro and five others.
Meanwhile, defendant Sheri Tanaka is trying to sever herself from the case for reasons that are being kept secret.