http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/April/08_nsd_299.html
“Physicist Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Arms Export Control Act
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “KNOXVILLE, TENN. – On April15, 2008, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, James R. Dedrick, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Patrick Rowan, announced that Daniel Max Sherman pled guilty to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. Section 2778), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. Sherman, 37, formerly of Knoxville, currently resides in Littleton, Colorado. He is a physicist who formerly worked at Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Incorporated, a Knoxville-based technology company.
According to the information and plea agreement, between January 2004 and May 2006, Sherman, J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc., engaged in a conspiracy to transmit export controlled technical data related to a restricted United States Air Force contract to develop plasma actuators for a munitions-type Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or “drones,” to a foreign national from the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese national was a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee was victimized by the conspirators and cooperated throughout with the FBI led investigation.
According to United States Attorney James R. Dedrick, the violation caries a maximum possible penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000.00 fine. “A top priority of the Department of Justice and this District is protect our national security and to protect our technology from disclosure to foreign governments,” according to United States Attorney Dedrick.
“Knowingly disclosing restricted U.S. military data to foreign nationals represents a very real threat to our national security, particularly when we know that foreign governments are actively seeking this information for their military development,” said Patrick Rowan, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
These investigations were jointly conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the Department of Commerce Office of Export Enforcement.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeffrey Theodore and Will Mackie of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.”
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http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/identitytheft041408.pdf
“MAN ARRESTED IN THEFT OF IDENTITIES FROM NEW YORK
PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL; U.S. ATTORNEY PROVIDES
INFORMATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE”
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, RONALD J. VERROCHIO, the
Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States
Postal Inspection Service (”USPIS”), BRIAN G. PARR, the Special
Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States
Secret Service (”USSS”), and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant
Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (”FBI”), announced the arrest late Friday of
former New York-Presbyterian Hospital employee DWIGHT McPHERSON
for his participation in a scheme to steal the identities of more
than 40,000 people, and then sell those stolen identities to
individuals seeking to commit fraud. According to the Complaint
filed in Manhattan federal court:”
(April 14, 2008)