May 18, 2018 | Page 9
BEVERLY HILLS
PROUD FAMILY – Beverly Hills City Council Member Lester Friedman, wife and former Parks and Recreation Commissioner Simone Friedman, Joshua Friedman (far right) and Allana Friedman (far left) traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel for Lester’s son Jeremy Friedman’s graduation from the Sackler School of Medicine. Jeremy will be doing his residency in anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles starting in June. Jeremy attended Hawthorne Elementary and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 2009 and Northwestern University in 2013 before attending Sackler School of Medicine.
L.A. Man Sentenced to Prison for School ‘Pay-to-Stay' Immigration Scam A Los Angeles man was sentenced Thursday to four months behind bars for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar "pay-to-stay" scheme that helped hundreds of foreign nationals remain in the United States by falsely claiming student status. Hyung Chan "Steve" Moon, 42, pleaded guilty in October 2015 to conspiracy and immigration document fraud in relation to what federal prosecutors called "a sophisticated, extensive, and lucrative fraud scheme that operated for many years in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles." The scheme – which may have generated as much as $6 million a year from citizens of South Korea, China and other nations – operated through Prodee University/Neo-America
Language School; Walter Jay M.D. Institute, an Educational Center; and the American College of Forensic Studies. A fourth school in Alhambra, Likie Fashion and Technology College, was also involved in the scheme, which ran for at least six years. The former owner of the schools – Hee Sun "Leonard" Shim, 54, of Beverly Hills – pleaded guilty in 2017 to conspiracy and immigration document fraud and was sentenced in April to 15 months in federal prison. As part of the conspiracy, the defendants created bogus student records, including transcripts, for some of the students for the purpose of deceiving immigration authorities. –– City News Service