[2] In September 1999, Kwon joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division, focusing on crimes involving drugs, gangs, counterfeiting, white-collar fraud, and immigration fraud.
[6] Kwon was nominated for the New Jersey Supreme Court by Governor Chris Christie in January 2012 to succeed John Wallace.
[10] In February 2014, Kwon was subpoenaed to testify before the New Jersey Legislature special committee investigating the Fort Lee George Washington Bridge lane closures which occurred in September 2013.
Kwon reportedly spent four or five days preparing Bill Baroni, the PANYNJ deputy executive director, for his November 2013 appearance before the NJ Assembly Transportation Committee and who at that time claimed that the lane closures were part of a legitimate traffic study.
[16] At the federal trial in 2016, Kwon was represented by Geoffrey Berman, who would later be interviewed by President Trump for the role of U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York.