Alison Lee Wong has been getting a lot of attention from the news media covering the mailbox conspiracy trial this past week, especially considering that she apparently doesn’t exist.

Former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, former ranking deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, and three Honolulu police officers are on trial in federal court, facing charges that they conspired to frame Katherine Kealoha’s uncle, Gerard Puana, in order to undermine allegations of financial fraud central to a civil lawsuit brought against Katherine by Puana and his mother. Whew. It’s tough to try and summarize this sprawling criminal prosecution in a simple sentence or paragraph, even though it has now been divided up into three separate sets of criminal charges to be considered in separate trials.

Back to good ol’ Alison Wong.

Prosecutors say she is a fictional character invented by Katherine Kealoha that could be trotted out from time to time to send emails and letters supporting Kealoha, or notarize documents for Kealoha that prosecutors say were fraudulent.

Puana’s former civil attorney testified that he discovered trust documents prepared by Kealoha and signed by Alison Lee Wong.

“There’s no record such a person exists in Hawaii as a notary, and prosecutors have continued to show evidence that Wong is a fake person created by Kealoha,” Civil Beat reported.

Civil Beat’s Nick Grube described several witnesses who appeared early in the week.

Among the witnesses called Monday were Carolee Kubo, the city of Honolulu’s human resources director, Shari Wong of the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, and Kal Tabbara, the founder of the American Association of Notaries.

All three were called to establish that Alison Lee Wong — an alias, prosecutors say, that Katherine Kealoha used to help her carry out financial crimes — was not a real person.

Tabbara testified about how Kealoha used the name “Kathryn Aloha” to order a notary seal and metal embosser for a Hawaii-based notary named Alison Lee Wong.

There’s no record of such a person existing as a notary in the state.

Grube reported on Thursday:

On Thursday, prosecutors had Puana revisit the possibility that his signature was forged. Then they called Dave Oleksow, a forensic document examiner, to the witness stand to testify about the handwriting on the document Kagiwada submitted, as well as other records related to the purchase of the condominium.

In each case, Oleksow said Gerard Puana’s signatures and initials appear to have been written by someone else. He also said a signature by a notary named Alison Lee Wong also appears to have similarities to Katherine Kealoha’s own handwriting.

Prosecutors say Alison Lee Wong is a fake persona Kealoha created to help her carry out her alleged financial crimes.

None of the defense lawyers opted to cross-examine Oleksow.

With all of that, I thought you would be interested in the written testimony submitted on behalf of Alison Wong back in February 2008 in support of Katherine Kealoha’s nomination as director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control. I found a copy of Wong’s emailed testimony in the legislature’s online archives for Governor’s Message 434, 2008 regular session. You can read most of the testimony submitted here (it’s a large file, so you might want to skip it if you’ve got a slow internet connection).

Beyond the Alison Lee Wong appearance, the testimony is interesting in light of the allegations against Katherine Kealoha. At the time she was nominated to the OEQC position and solicited testimony in support of her nomination, prosecutors say she had already taken money from her uncle for what she said was an investment hui. But prosecutors say it was really a ponzi scheme in which she paid initial “profits” back to Puana from his own funds, while using some or all of the remainder for her own personal expenses.

And in January 2008, the month before Governor Linda Lingle submitted her nomination to the legislature, prosecutors allege Kealoha had pledged money held in a trust account for a client as collateral for a personal loan for herself, and later essentially cleaned out the account, again using the funds for personal expenses.

Those submitting the glowing testimony in support of Kealoha’s OEQC nomination obviously had no way to know any of this.

These and related allegations of financial crimes are set to be heard in a second upcoming trial.