"One of the 201 visa-seekers who did not have difficulty coming up with the money was Sang Ah Park, a daughter-in-law of Chun Doo-hwan, the last military dictator of South Korea. In 2007, she used a slice of the ill-gotten millions he collected as dictator to help finance the Pennsylvania Convention Center’s $800 million expansion."

https://www.inquirer.com/business/eb5-loan-visa-program-construction-projects-20230907.html?utm_source=mastodon

How rich immigrants won U.S. residency by investing $1.4 billion in Philly projects

Since 2004, more than 2,000 foreign investors have pumped money into Philadelphia in exchange for EB-5 visas, which allow them and their families to immigrate to the U.S.

The Philadelphia Inquirer