Federal Magistrate Judge Kenneth Mansfield sign an order today approving an agreement between prosecutors and accused racketeering conspiracy leader Michael J. Miske, Jr., to sell a home he owns on Kumukahi Place in Hawaii Kai.

Miske purchased the 4 bedroom, 3 bath marina-front home at a foreclosure auction in a deal that closed at the end of 2019, but it is one of several of his properties the government alleges were purchased with “proceeds obtained directly or indirectly from racketeering activity.”

Miske and 10 co-defendants, is currently scheduled to begin on September 6.

The property was listed for sale in December with an asking price of $1.65 million, and the latest order allows it to be sold. All proceeds from the sale are to be paid to the US Marshals Service, and deposited into the Department of Justice Seized Asset Deposit Fund pending trial and resolution of the government’s forfeiture request.

The selling price and the buyer are still unknown, but that information should become public when the sale is recorded at the Bureau of Conveyances.

The 22-count indictment, originally unsealed in July 2020, and then updated in July 2021 with the addition of two new defendants, charges “charging Defendant Miske and others with such crimes as murder in aid of racketeering, murder-for-hire conspiracy resulting in death, kidnapping using a facility of interstate commerce resulting in death, carrying and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, conspiracy to use a chemical weapon, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and bank fraud.”

According to the order, “the government and counsel for Defendant Miske have coordinated with regard to the preservation of assets alleged in the Indictment to be subject to forfeiture. The govemment and Defendant Miske agree that a market sale of the Subject Property is in the interests of all parties.”

“The government alleges that probable cause exists that the Subject Property represents property derived from proceeds traceable to an offense constituting specified unlawful activity,” including wire fraud, fraudulent identification documents, and other unlawful activities, according to the agreement.

Miske signed off on the order earlier this month, as did attorney Lynn Panagakos, who is co-counsel on his defense team, along with Thomas Otake. Assistant US Attorney Craig Nolan signed for US Attorney Clare E. Connors. Magistrate Judge Mansfield approved and signed the order on January 27.

Still facing forfeiture if Miske is convicted are a $5.6 million home on Lumahai Street in Portlock, which sits on a lot of more than 38,000 square feet, and another property 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on Paokano Loop in Kailua’s Enchanted Lake neighborhood, currently valued for tax purposes at $962,600.