Defense attorneys raised a handful of issues with the case, including that the grand jury was misled.

A state judge says she’ll decide within 30 days whether the case of a Hawaiʻi businessman accused of funneling money through subordinates should proceed or be dismissed.

Prosecutors allege that JL Capital CEO Tim Lee reimbursed employees for donations they made to the mayoral campaigns of Keith Amemiya and Kym Pine in 2020. State law prohibits political donations in the name of anyone other than the source of the money.

But Lee’s defense attorneys argued that those “purported” reimbursements in this case don’t fall under that law because the source of the donations originated with the employees, not with Lee. They asked the court to dismiss the case on Wednesday.

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