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June 12, 2007
Korean Attorney Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to Four Years in State Prison in Two Cases
LOS ANGELES – A 49-year-old Korean attorney who earlier pleaded guilty to forging documents and preparing false evidence pleaded no contest today in a separate case to three counts of grand theft, the District Attorney’s office announced.
Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Munisoglu with the Justice System Integrity Division said Charlie C. Chi entered the plea before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne Egerton.
Judge Egerton sentenced Chi to four years in state prison for both cases. She also ordered him to pay $218,550 in restitution to three former clients. Chi admitted spending $100,000 in a trust fund account of a client. He also defrauded two victims by offering to sell a franchise without following state law.
Chi was first arrested in January 2004 on a felony arrest warrant charging him with one count of bribery of a witness. While that case was pending the California State Bar referred a second case to the D.A.’s office. In the second case, Chi allegedly enticed a businessman living in Korea into buying a Culver City coffee shop even though he didn’t have the proper documentation to sell it, Munisoglu said.
He pleaded guilty in 2005 to two counts of forgery and was ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution in that case. To date, he’s repaid $13,000, Munisoglu said. In the earlier case, Chi allegedly approached the mother of a 7-year-old girl after she testified during a 2003 preliminary hearing that a family member had sexually molested her. Chi allegedly tried to get the mother to interfere with the victim’s availability for trial. He allegedly also tried to encourage the mother to testify that she forgave the defendant in an effort to seek leniency for the defendant if he was convicted. Those charges were dismissed after he pleaded in the forgery case.
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