State economist's husband enters plea of no contest in campaign case

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The husband of a state economist was fined $150 yesterday after he pleaded no contest to making a campaign contribution to Mayor Jeremy Harris under a false name.

Kent Iboshi, who is married to Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism economist Pearl Imada Iboshi, was also ordered to perform 10 hours of community service.

District Judge Peter Stone granted Kent Iboshi's request that he be allowed to clear his record if charged with no additional offenses for one year. Prosecutors had objected and sought a one-year probation term.

Iboshi was the seventh person to figure in a court hearing this week in relation to illegal campaign contributions to Harris.

Police Commissioner Leonard Leong pleaded no contest to the same misdemeanor on Tuesday and was fined $1,000. Others on the seven-member commission have called for his resignation.

On Wednesday, an O'ahu grand jury indicted five people associated with the R.M. Towill engineering firm who are charged with misdemeanor campaign violations. They have yet to be arraigned.