HONOLULU (KHON2) — The jury has reached a decision on how much cash and property convicted murder and racketeering crime boss Michael Miske will lose.
The jury was handed phase two of his trial after just two days.
During phase two, jury instructions listed 16 items from multimillion-dollar homes to exotic cars, cash from numerous bank accounts and an art collection with pieces such as a sculpture called “Uzi Does It,” which is named after a machine gun.
During Wednesday’s session, the jury found that Miske’s Portlock and Kailua homes, multiple vessels and millions of dollars in bank funds were acquired or maintained in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1962.
The government will reclaim Miske’s Portlock and Hawaii Kai properties, two fishing vessels, as well as more than $3 million in funds seized by the Bank of Hawaii.
All items were found to be “obtained directly or indirectly from racketeering activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1962.
Phase one took more than 100 days of trial to convict Miske on 13 counts including “murder in aid of racketeering,” “conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering” and several other racketeering and conspiracy-related counts.
Miske’s sentencing is scheduled to take place in four months.