I missed Delia Fabro-Miske’s sentencing as I waited for two plumbers to finish up a repair at our house.

But Courthouse News Service reporter Jeremy Yurow was there and provided a valuable account.

Here’s an excerpt. You should use to link to read Yurow’s full original account.

She (Fabro-Miske) appeared for sentencing at the federal courthouse in Honolulu accompanied by her defense attorneys, who had argued that their client was under the control of her powerful father-in-law.

“She wasn’t running a multi-million dollar organization. She wasn’t the property owner,” defense attorney Marcia Morrissey told the court. “She did what he told her to do because she wasn’t equipped to — maybe the judge sees — she was a high school graduate, no training in business.”

Watson overruled the defense’s objections about her supposed involvement in the 2016 kidnapping and murder of Jonathan Fraser, in what prosecutors say was retaliation by Miske for his son’s death in a car crash.

“There were several acts by Ms. Fabro-Miske that cumulatively leave no doubt in my mind that she knew what her acts were contributing to when she did them — that is, Mr. Fraser’s kidnapping and his ultimate murder,” Watson said during Wednesday’s hearing.

Watson rejected arguments that Fabro-Miske was unaware of her role in Fraser’s disappearance, pointing to specific actions she took, including convincing Fraser and his girlfriend Ashley Wong to become roommates in an apartment paid for by Mike Miske.

“What followed was this: in the Hawaii Kai apartment that Ms. Fabro-Miske shared for a very short period of time with Mr. Fraser and Ms. Wong, Ms. Fabro disconnected the Time Warner router that was the only way for Mr. Fraser and Ms. Wong to use one of the cellular phones they possessed to communicate,” Watson said.

The judge also cited how Fabro-Miske arranged an expensive spa day for herself and Wong on the day Fraser disappeared, and then quickly evicted Wong from the apartment under false pretenses.

“While any one of these actions might be explained away with innocent and other reasons, together they paint a strong and clear picture of a conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping in aid of the very same racketeering enterprise that Ms. Fabro-Miske admitted she was a member of,” Watson said.