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Santa Margarita, CA - Koo Hyung Jung, a civilian employee of the U.S.
Department of Defense’s 501st Military Intelligence Brigade (MIB) pleaded
guilty today in the Eastern District of Virginia to illegally obtaining over
$141,561 in Living Quarters Allowance (LQA) funds according to announcement by Assistant
Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division.
Koo
Hyung Jung, 61, of Fairfax, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of knowing
conversion of government property before U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga
of the Eastern District of Virginia. Jung will be sentenced on July 1,
2016.
According
to admissions made in connection with his plea, in 2008, 2010 and 2012, Jung
submitted false documents in order to obtain LQA funds from the Department of
Defense. Jung then converted the funds to his own personal benefit,
contrary to the applicable regulations, allowing him to obtain government funds
without paying the requisite taxes on the lump sum LQA payments, he admitted.
DCIS,
CID and the FBI are investigating the case with assistance from the FBI Legal
Attaché Jin W. Kim in the Republic of Korea and the Justice Department’s Office
of International Affairs.
Trial
Attorneys Richard B. Evans and Justin D. Weitz of the Public Integrity Section
and Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye of the Eastern District of Virginia are
prosecuting the case
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