Kim admitted that between approximately January 2018 and September 2018, she misappropriated approximately $1,501,285.12 from the school\u2019s bank accounts through unauthorized check, debit, and credit card transactions.<\/p>\n
Kim treated her company\u2019s funds as her own personal bank account,\u201d<\/strong> Timothy Thibault, acting special agent in charge of the criminal division at the FBIs Washington field office, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nProsecutors say Kim used her academy bank card 120 times to withdraw cash. She was arrested in the MGM National Harbor in November 2019 after the school spotted the transactions and called the FBI.<\/p>\n
The Kirov Prestige\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cFor nearly a year, this defendant used her trusted position to fleece her nonprofit employer for $1.5 million dollars,\u201d said Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips. \u201cWe have no tolerance for offenders raiding the coffers of the businesses and institutions that make our District great.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to The New York Times<\/em>, at its peak in the 2000s, the Kirov produced around a dozen top dancers per year, some of them now principals at some of the world\u2019s most prestigious ballet companies.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Kirov took its name from the famous Russian company Mariinsky Ballet, which was known as the Kirov Ballet during Soviet rule.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear whether the Unification Church — a virulently anti-communist organization — is aware that the original Kirov was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, whose assassination was the pretext for Stalin\u2019s first Great Purge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The former comptroller of Washington DC-based Kirov Ballet School has pleaded guilty to defrauding her ex-employer out of $1.5 million. According to prosecutors, Sophia Kim, 60, also known as Sookyeong Kim Sebold, used the money for gambling and to pay off debts at the MGM National Harbor in Maryland. The dance school was established by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":173256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Serial Embezzler Steals $1.5M from Kirov Ballet School to Fund Gambling<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n