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A former financial officer of a Hawaii Island charter school has been sentenced for embezzling nearly $629,000.

Kelaukila Estabilio, 40, of Hilo admitted to stealing the money from the Kua O Ka Lā Public Charter School. It was located in Pahoa until its campus was overrun by lava in the Kilauea eruption of 2018.