Back in October, I reported how Mike Miske’s Kamaaina Termite and Pest control “relied on phony company documents submitted to state regulators to win their approval of the company’s initial pest control operator’s license, according to the affidavit of an IRS criminal investigator.”

The affidavit that served as the basis for the story was among a batch of unsealed and made public, some in redacted form, after a challenge to their continued secrecy brought by the Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest.

It was a good story, but my original draft was just too long. To keep it manageable, a section describing additional revelations contained in the newly unsealed affidavit was cut from the published version of the story.

There were some interesting tidbits in the part that was deleted, so I’m sharing it below.

According to the affidavit, the cooperating witness referred to as CW-7, which appears to be Miske’s accountant, Tricia Castro, said Miske would tell her “the bar in the M nightclub was ‘cash-driven’ and that paying bouncers, disc jockeys, and others in cash was ‘normal’ in the industry.”

At least during certain periods, some Kamaaina Termite employees were also paid partly or entirely in cash, allowing the company to avoid payroll taxes and the cost of certain benefits, such as health insurance.

“Specifically, employees would be paid ‘on the books’ for a certain amount of hours per week-for example, 30 to 35 hours a week- and the remaining hours were paid in cash. Approximately 14 to 15 employees at KTPC were handled in this manner,” according to the MacPherson affidavit.

“Miske and others would also make cash payments to contractors and refuse to prepare IRS Form 1099s, as is required for such payments. Given that employment tax returns are submitted electronically over the internet, Miske’s conduct constituted, among other things wire fraud,” federal investigators allege.

Construction workers at the large home Miske was building on Lumahai Street in Portlock were also paid in cash, investigators learned, as were foreign fishermen who worked on the longline fishing vessel Rachel, which was owned by another of MIske’s companies, Kamaaina Holdings.

At least some of that cash was allegedly taken out of Miske’s M Nightclub.

The cooperating witness believed to be Miske accountant, Tricia Castro, told investigators that Jason Yokoyama, president of Leverage Inc., which owned and operated the M Nightclub, would make cash withdrawals of $6,000 to $7,000 each week, which were then reported as “outside services” and deducted as an expense on the nightclub’s tax returns.

The witness, believed to be Castro, told investigators “Miske was directing most of his available resources toward finishing” his Portlock residence.

Yokoyama was added as a defendant in the same superseding indictment as Fabro-Miske. He is charged with being part of Miske’s racketeering conspiracy, a charge which carries a maximum 20-year sentence if convicted.