Bo Hi Pak's Ex-nonprofit bookkeeper sentenced to two years for tax crimes

A former McLean resident who embezzled more than $800,000 from a nonprofit tied to the Unification Church and then failed to report the income on her tax returns was sentenced to two years in prison, prosecutors said.

Sookyeong Kim Sebold, the former bookkeeper of the nonprofit, was sentenced to the prison time on Friday and was also ordered to pay $133,548 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

She was convicted in December of filing a false 2005 tax return and tax evasion for the year 2005.

Sebold, 52, had worked as a bookkeeper and treasurer for Bo Hi Pak’s Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded to promote Korean culture and ballet. The foundation was primarily funded by the Unification Church International, which had ties to the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon.