Former Waianae Couple Pleads Guilty to Operating Gambling Business and Structuring Over $100,000

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HONOLULU—Lloyd Robert Marshall, age 67,and Nitta Mitsuko Marshall, age 65, former Waianae residents, today pled guiltybefore United States Magistrate Judge Barry M. Kurren to conspiracy to conduct,operate, finance, supervise, and direct an illegal gambling business involvingcockfighting, dice tables, and card games at their Puuhulu Road property inWaianae. The Marshalls also entered guilty pleas to 13 counts of structuringover $132,000 in proceeds during a one-year period from the illegal gamblingbusiness to evade certain regulations relating to currency transactions. Underfederal law, a Currency Transaction Report must be filed by a financialinstitution with the Internal Revenue Service in regard to any currencytransaction over $10,000. It is illegal to structure transactions withfinancial institutions in order to avoid this filing requirement.
Florence T. Nakakuni, United StatesAttorney for the District of Hawaii, said that the Marshalls also agreed toforfeit $170,578.75 in cash, representing gambling proceeds which were seizedon July 2, 2011, during a search warrant executed on their property, and theirinterest in real property used as the venue for the illegal gamblingactivities. According to documents filed in connection with the case, fromapproximately 2009 to July 2011, the Marshalls agreed to use their property asa site of illegal cockfighting contests and dice and card games. Policeobserved from 100 to 600 people at these “derbies.” People attending the gamespaid parking and entrance fees.
The defendants face maximum penalties offive years’ imprisonment for the gambling charges and 10 years’ imprisonmentfor each of the structuring counts, along with fines totaling up to $250,000and $500,000 respectively, when they are sentenced on January 28, 2013, beforeChief United States District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.
The case was investigated by the FederalBureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland SecurityInvestigations, and the Honolulu Police Department. Assistant United StatesAttorney Beverly Wee Sameshima is handling the prosecution.