Son of IOC Member Kim Charged With Lying to FBI : Olympics: Younger Korean also may have fraudulently obtained a green card.

The son of one of the International Olympic Committee’s most powerful delegates was indicted Wednesday on federal charges that he lied to the FBI and used a fraudulently obtained green card to repeatedly enter the United States.

In the second criminal case stemming from Salt Lake City’s scandal-plagued winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games, Jung Hoon “John” Kim, 39, was charged in separate indictments unsealed in Utah and Brooklyn, N.Y.

Kim--the son of South Korean Kim Un Yong, a member of the IOC’s ruling executive board--returned earlier this summer to Seoul, and it remains unclear whether he will ever answer charges in the United States. Neither Kim was available Wednesday for comment.

The family’s New York publicist, William Schechter, said John Kim denies wrongdoing. Schechter also asserted that five U.S. agents appeared at John Kim’s Long Island residence at 6:55 a.m. Wednesday, where the younger Kim’s wife, 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son are still living.

“They displayed no warrant but showed badges and guns and moved past [the wife] without permission into the room where the children were,” Schechter said. “I can’t characterize it as terrifying, but it was shocking to the family.”

The 16-count Brooklyn indictment alleges that the younger Kim was put on the payroll of the New York city office of Keystone Communications, a Utah telecommunications firm--as part of a complex scheme to help the younger Kim obtain a green card and to influence the elder Kim’s vote for the 2002 Games.

The indictment alleges that the Salt Lake bid committee and John Kim himself were actually paying John Kim’s salary.

The Utah indictment alleges that John Kim did not provide truthful answers when interviewed Feb. 23 by FBI agents about Keystone.

David E. Simmons, 41, Keystone’s former chairman, pleaded guilty Aug. 3 in federal court in Salt Lake City in a related case. He entered the plea to a misdemeanor tax charge, admitting he was responsible for the firm submitting a 1992 tax return that falsely deducted the salary of “employee” John Kim.

As part of his plea, Simmons agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Last week, John Kim filed a $100,000 defamation suit in Seoul against Simmons.

The elder Kim has said he neither “participated in nor condoned” the bid committee’s arrangement with Keystone. He was reprimanded earlier in the year by the IOC for his role in the Salt Lake vote-buying scandal, which led to the resignation or expulsion of 10 other IOC members.

The Brooklyn indictment also alleges that the younger Kim used his green card--granted in October 1992 on the basis of his “job” with Keystone--to enter the United States repeatedly between January 1995 and February 1999. Keystone stopped making “salary payments” to John Kim in October 1992, the indictment said.

John Kim said two weeks ago he had turned the green card in to the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Aug. 6.

In recent weeks, as part of negotiations apparently aimed at averting an indictment, Schechter said prosecutors had been given documents in which U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) purportedly told Salt Lake bid officials he would do “everything required” to make a green card for the younger Kim an “appropriate success.”

Hatch issued a statement late Wednesday saying Salt Lake Olympic officials had asked for routine information about “immigration procedures,” which his staff provided. “To my recollection no other action was taken,” the statement said.

Asked about Schechter’s claim of assurances on behalf of the younger Kim, Heather Barney, a spokeswoman for Hatch, said: “We know nothing about that.”