On August 5, 2022, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board ruled on the Affidavit Declaring Consent to Revocation of her license to practice law in the State of Virginia filed by Newport News attorney Nosuk Pak Kim relating to her guilty plea to a two-count criminal information.

The case titled ‘In the Matter of Nosuk Pak Kim’ was brought by the Virginia State Bar, case no. 22-021-125149.

Respondent was charged with two counts of Evasion of Income Tax Assessment and being heard before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On July 21, 2022, the Respondent, assisted by counsel, entered into a plea agreement with the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Plea Agreement contains among others:

“The defendant agrees to waive indictment and plead guilty to a two-count Criminal Information. Count One charges the defendant with Evasion of Income Tax Assessment, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201. . . Count Two charges the defendant with Evasion of Income Tax Assessment. . . The defendant understands that any supervised release term is in addition to any prison term the defendant may receive and that a violation of a term of supervised release could result in the defendant being returned to prison for the full term of supervised release.”

The plea agreement continues:

“The defendant will plead guilty because the defendant is in fact guilty of the charged offenses. The defendant admits the facts set forth in the Statement of Facts filed with this Plea Agreement and agrees that those facts establish guilt of the offenses charged beyond a reasonable doubt…”

The Affidavit Declaring Consent to Revocation was executed and sworn to before a notary public by the Respondent on August 5, 2022, stipulating in pertinent part:

“I am aware that there is currently pending a complaint, an investigation into, or a proceeding involving, allegations of misconduct, . . . and the specific nature of which is here set forth:

On or about July 28, 2022, I entered a plea of guilty to two counts of Evasion of Income Tax Assessment, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201 in U.S v. Nosuk Kim, Case No. 4:22-cr-52. . . I intentionally took actions to evade the assessment of y income taxes due and owing. My acts represented a voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty to report and pay income taxes on my income. My acts as described herein were done with the specific intent to violate the law;”

Accordingly, the Board, having considered the Affidavit, and Bar Counsel having no objection, accepted Respondent’s Consent to Revocation.

The dispositive portion of the Consent to Revocation Order reads:

“Upon consideration whereof, it is therefore ordered that Nosuk Pak Kim’s license to practice law in the courts of this Commonwealth be and the same hereby is revoked and that the name of Nosuk Pak Kim be stricken from the Roll of Attorneys of this Commonwealth.”

Ms. Kim attended Suffolk University Law School, graduating in 1989. She has practiced in the Eastern Virginia area. She has been licensed in Virginia. Her info online can be found at Cowardin & Kim here.

A copy of the original filing can be found here.