We’ve seen it happen in that FBI Russia probe, too: Getting caught in a lie to the feds can give investigators leverage.

Katherine Kealoha, the former Honolulu deputy prosecutor facing a bank fraud trial, was having an affair with Hawaii County firefighter Jesse Ebersole. His nude photos were on her phone.

That’s far more than anyone really wanted to know, of course. But that and other evidence helped confirm Ebersole’s relationship with Kealoha — she’s married to disgraced former police chief Louis Kealoha — and Ebersole ultimately pleaded guilty to lying about it.

He’s now cooperating with the probe and is expected to testify at trial. More drama to follow.

Trail blocked to people and mules alike

Ever see that bumper sticker, “Wouldn’t You Rather Be Riding a Mule in Molokai?” For now, we’ll all have to strike that off our bucket list.

A landslide wiped out a bridge and closed the Kalaupapa Trail, the steep, zig-zagging route to the famed peninsula, frequented by four-legged and two-legged visitors alike.

The Kalaupapa National Historical Park — once chosen as a confinement site for Hansen’s disease patients expressly because it was hard to reach — is still reachable by sea and air, to those with a permit. But the land approach is just too perilous, as surefooted as a mule may be.