WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Following a nine-month investigation, the House Ethics Committee has released a report on Rep. Jay Kim (R-California) outlining the investigation of charges for which Kim already pleaded guilty. It includes some additional alleged violations of House rules.

The first four charges in the report focus on Kim's acceptance of illegal campaign contributions and making false statements on his Financial Disclosure Statements.

Kim reached a 1997 plea agreement with the Department of Justice on the four charges, causing Kim's return to Congress wearing an electronic ankle surveillance monitor.

The Ethics report also outlined charges that Kim received a $30,000 gift in 1994 from a company based in South Korea, failed to report it, along with gifts of travel expense and golf equipment in his Financial Disclosure Statements, and made false statements to the Ethics Committee regarding the gifts.

The committee also charges that Kim received gifts of cashier's checks totalling $30,000 in 1997 and 1998, which he used to pay the U.S. Treasury for reimbursement of excess outside earned income.

The report also details evidence of Kim's campaign committee making false statements to the Federal Election Committee over a number of years, findings that Kim did not act in good faith to repay excess earned income from his book "I'm Conservative", and that over $50,000 was raised in South Korea in 1997, placed in a bank account there, with the intention of being used to defray legal expenses.

Despite additional findings of violations of House rules, the committee unanimously voted not to take further action because Kim is not seeking re-election.

Friday, October 9, 1998

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• Next step: laying the groundwork for impeachment hearings
• Prosecutors and defense spar over Espy's gift-giving friend
• House Ethics Committee releases report on Rep. Kim
• Senate Democrats try to revive health-care debate
• Hyde: GOP won't object to inquiry calling Starr
• California base closing hits 1,600 jobs
• Paralyzed California candidate has own agenda
• House passes bankruptcy bill
• Roll call: House bankruptcy bill
• Supreme Court to expand study of census
• Nutrition bill passes House
• Senate approves religious freedom bill
• Tipper Gore injures leg jogging
• Designs finalized for new quarters
• New York parole board member indicted over Pataki fund-raising
• House readies $9B tax package

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