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Student accused of bomb threat ‘under pressure’
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A Harvard student accused of making a bomb threat to get out of a final exam was under a great deal of pressure and seems remorseful, his lawyer said after his client was freed on bail on Wednesday.
Eldo Kim, 20, was released on US$100,000 bond into the custody of his sister, who lives in Massachusetts, and an uncle from North Carolina. Attorneys did not say where he will stay.
The US attorney’s office in Boston alleges that Kim sent hoax emails on Monday saying shrapnel bombs would go off soon in two of four buildings on Harvard’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus. The emails came minutes before he was to take an exam in one of the buildings.
The buildings were shut down for hours before investigators determined that there were no explosives.
Lawyer Ian Gold said Kim was dealing with finals and the third anniversary of his father’s death, which is this month.
Kim, wearing a gray T-shirt and Harvard sweatpants, appeared somber as he stood before the judge.
Under the conditions of his release, he cannot enter Harvard’s campus without prior approval of both the school and the federal court.
Harvard said it was saddened by the allegations but would make no further comment on the investigation.
Authorities said Kim told them he emailed the bomb threats about a half-hour before he was due to take a final in Emerson Hall. He said he was there at 9am when he heard the alarm sound and knew his plan had worked, according to an FBI affidavit.
Kim became a naturalized US citizen in fifth grade and renounced his South Korean citizenship, Gold said. Kim attended high school in Mukilteo, Washington. A cached version of his LinkedIn profile, which has been taken down, indicates that he did several internships in South Korea. When he was in high school he volunteered at a monastery in Nepal, according to a testimonial he wrote on the volunteer organization’s website.
Gold said Kim’s mother lives in South Korea.
An FBI affidavit says Harvard determined Kim had accessed TOR, a free product that assigns a temporary anonymous Internet protocol address, using the university’s wireless network.
The maximum penalties for a bomb hoax are five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine.
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