Off the news: Next AG inherits slate of tough cases

Anne Lopez will be out as Hawaii’s attorney general next month, getting cut loose as Gov. Josh Green shuffles up his Cabinet for his second term. Lopez, who initially balked at investigating the “$35,000 in a paper bag” corruption allegations, eventually secured criminal indictments against Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, three other top officials and a lobbyist. Green was publicly frustrated at the pace of the probe.

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