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CPA Charged with Stealing $500K from Firm

Patrick H. Oki, PKF Pacific HawaiiThe managing partner of PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP has been charged with bilking his firm of $500,000 in fraudulent expense claims. CPA Patrick H. Oki, age 45, faces 13 separate felony counts for what were alleged to have been four different reimbursement schemes. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Oki has also served on the board of the Hawaii Society of CPAs since 2008, according to his LinkedIn page.

The charges stemming from the indictment are theft in the first degree, money laundering, use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime, and forgery in the second degree. Oki was arrested Sunday, April 5, at the Honolulu International Airport after he arrived on a flight from South Korea. If convicted of the computer charge, Oki, who was been with the firm since August 2010, faces an indeterminate sentence of 20 years in prison with no possibility of probation.

The indictment alleges Oki created fictitious persons, companies, contracts, IRS forms, invoices, financial documents, websites, and e-mail addresses in claiming he had incurred expenses for services provided to clients.

Authorities charged the CPA made false entries in the firm's books, forged signatures of fictitious persons and deceived his partners. His partners reported the activities to authorities after allegedly discovering the expenses were not work related.

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