City Seeks $250,000 Repayment as Louis Kealoha Leaves Custody

Nov 13, 2026

Former Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha is out of federal custody, but the money he and his ex-wife owe from their corruption case is still unpaid, which is bad news for taxpayers and family members waiting to be repaid.

  • Louis Kealoha finished house arrest and is now on supervised release, a form of federal probation.
  • His ex-wife, former deputy prosecutor Catherine Kealoha, is about to move from prison to a halfway house.
  • Together they owe hundreds of thousands of dollars in court-ordered restitution to Catherine's relatives, plus Catherine owes a separate $500,000 judgment to family members whose trust accounts were drained.
  • Louis Kealoha also must repay the city $250,000, the amount he was paid to retire after getting an FBI target letter, since his felony conviction triggered a repayment clause.
  • The city has a lien in place to try to collect that $250,000, but the attorney handling the restitution says only part of the money owed may ever actually be recovered.

Outlook: The city and the relatives' attorney are moving to enforce their liens, but how much money actually gets collected from the Kealohas remains uncertain.

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