HONOLULU (CN) — Lance Bermudez, the final co-defendant in the sprawling racketeering case against the “Miske Enterprise,” was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in the criminal organization that terrorized Hawaii’s underworld for decades.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, a Barack Obama appointee, imposed the sentence during a hearing at the Prince Kuhio Federal Building in Honolulu.
“The defendant was running amok and for about a year. That timeframe, that timeframe being in the 2016–2017 era, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that he terrorized this city and this county to a greater extent than anyone I can remember, and I’ve lived here a long time,” Watson said…