Three Indicted in Alleged Student Visa Scam

Federal immigration agents have indicted three individuals in connection to an investigation into a network of four schools in the Los Angeles area accused of admitting foreign nationals who were not bona fide students and never had any intention of taking classes. The four schools involved in the alleged "pay-to-stay" (in the U.S.) scam -- Prodee University/Neo-America Language School, Walter Jay M.D. Institute, An Educational Center and the American College of Forensic Studies, all located in Los Angeles's Koreatown, and Likie Fashion and Technology College, located in Alhambra, Calif. -- took in an estimated $6 million per year in fraudulent tuition payments. The owner of the schools, Hee Sun Shim, and two others who assisted in their management, Hyung Chan Moon and Eun Young Choi, have been charged with conspiring to commit immigration fraud and the use or possession of an immigration document procured by fraud. Shim also faces charges of money laundering.