Friends and relatives of Honolulu Realtor Scott S. Kamiya sent letters of support to the court calling his theft of more than $284,000 from the trust for which he worked as a bookkeeper his "one mistake."

His lawyer said Kamiya didn’t spend the stolen money on extravagance, drugs or gambling — he put it into his failing businesses.

U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi said, "He could have bought a (Ferrari) Testarossa. I don’t care what he did with the money. It wasn’t his money."

She also said Kamiya’s theft wasn’t a single act of transgression. The prosecutor documented 107 separate transactions Kamiya did from 2005 to 2009 to steal money from a real estate trust that was to benefit the family of the man who created it.

Kobayashi sentenced Kamiya Tuesday to 33 months in prison — the maximum prison term suggested by federal court advisory sentencing guidelines. She also ordered him to repay the trust $243,473. He paid back the trust about $40,000 before federal authorities charged him last summer.

Kamiya, 33, pleaded guilty in a deal with the prosecutor last July to one count of bank fraud for forging the signature of a trust authorized representative on a $19,046 check and deposited the money into the account of one of his businesses.

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