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SON OF IOC MEMBER INDICTED IN CONNECTION WITH
SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPIC BID INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Jung Hoon Kim, the son of a member of the International Olympic Committee, has been indicted for making false statements to the FBI and using immigration documents that he knew were fraudulently obtained, the Justice Department announced today. Kim is the second person charged in connection with the Justice Department's investigation into Salt Lake City's bid for the Olympic Winter Games.
In a one count indictment, returned today in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Kim is charged with making false statements to an FBI agent during a February 23 interview that was conducted as part of the criminal investigation.
In addition, Kim was charged in a 16-count indictment that was returned yesterday and unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York. That indictment charges Kim with using a fraudulently obtained green card to re-enter the United States repeatedly between 1995 and 1999.
The Brooklyn indictment alleges that Kim was placed on the payroll of the New York City office of Keystone Communications, L.P., as part of a scheme to help Kim obtain permanent resident status, namely to help him obtain his green card. It further alleges that the Salt Lake City Olympic Bid Committee and Kim himself were actually funding Kim's job at Keystone, a satellite communication company based in Salt Lake City. A purpose of the scheme, in part, was to influence the vote of Kim's father in favor of awarding the Olympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City.
Last December, the Justice Department launched an investigation into allegations of improprieties in connection with the Salt Lake City Olympic bid. The investigation, which is continuing, is being conducted by prosecutors from the Fraud and Public Integrity Sections of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department, and by the FBI, along with agents from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Customs Service.
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