Ex-Justice Ministers Wife Receives Four Year Jail Sentence for Corruption
This is part of the reason why the Moon administration has been going after Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl because he had his prosecutors investigate this corruption:
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s wife was sentenced by a Seoul court on Wednesday to imprisonment of four years for academic fraud.
Korea Times
The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail sentence, together with a fine of 500 million won (US$451,000), to Chung Kyung-sim, the wife of the former presidential secretary for civil affairs and a close aide to President Moon Jae-in.
The court also ordered the immediate imprisonment of Chung.
Chung was indicted in November last year on 15 counts of charges related to her daughter’s college admission and her dubious investment in a private equity fund (PEF).
Chung is accused of being involved in fabricating documentation from 2013-2014, including a college presidential citation, in order to get her daughter admitted to medical school.
You can read more at the link, but I doubt that she will do four years in jail. She will get her sentenced reduced probably on appeal as things tend to happen. Her husband Cho Kuk is still under investigation for his role in these corrupt dealings.
She’ll be home for Christmas.
What Cho Kuk and his wife did was illegal, and they should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent the law allows.
That said, the prosecutors who are investigating and prosecuting the case including the guy leading them aren’t exactly boy scouts either.
Yoon, the PG has a lot of skeletons in his closet especially when it comes to his wife and mother in law. And the prosecutors, without any oversight, have abused their more or less unlimited powers by prosecuting those who can’t fight back while leaving the powerful alone so that they can profit from them.
Which is why one of the campaign promises made by Calamity Moon was to put more oversight on the prosecutors. Ironically, his unrelenting stubbornness that Cho Kuk was the only one who can realize his campaign promise is the reason for this one big mess. That and the tendency of the leftists to take everything personally.