[NEWS] Agents: CEO tried to import girl, 13, to wed

[Cuong Nguyen <nguyen_cuong@yahoo.com>]

Cha`o cac bac,

Ca'i tin na`y la`m toi nho den co la`n doc bao VN ve cau
chuyen nha trieu phu My~ (toi quen mat ten va` ong na`y 
hi`nh nhu da~ tu nan may bay) la` do^`ng chu? ha~ng DHL
qua VietNam va lay 1 co vo be' 17 tuo?i. Toi rat ngac nhien
la` bao VN da~ ca tung moi ti`nh cu?a ong ta voi co gai vi 
thanh nien VN ma` khong thay da? dong den van de^` ong ta
da~ pham toi nang ne^` (statutory rape ?). Di~ nhien ca'i 
tin duoi da^y co`n na(.ng ho*n nhie`u, but basically
they're both in the same vein.
Cau ho?i cua toi o day la` hien tho`i chinh quyen VN da~
co bien phap gi` huu hieu de^? bao ve cac em nho? (vi.
tha`nh nie^n) VN chu*a ?? Co' la^`n duoc xem 1 chuong trinh
cu?a phong vien My~ qua Phi luat tan "mua" vo*. tre? ma`
thay o*'n qu'a!!! Hy vong se~ khong xa?y ra o+? VN.

Cheers,

Cuong

P.S.
Hey guys this has nothing to do with your on going
ti`mba.ncha<mna<m campaign. D'accord? Oui? Non? :-)

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Agents: CEO tried to import girl, 13, to wed
BY HOWARD MINTZ
Mercury News Staff Writer

After paying her family more than $150,000, a Silicon Valley 
patent lawyer and CEO was ready to board a plane this week 
allegedly to complete a deal for making a 13-year-old 
Vietnamese girl his wife.
Instead, federal agents on Wednesday arrested 
Michael David Rostoker, 41, at San Francisco International Airport
and charged him with illegally traveling to a foreign country 
to have sex with a minor.

Rostoker appeared briefly Thursday in U.S. District Court 
in San Jose. He remains in custody, and his lawyer, Dan Barton,
declined comment outside the courtroom.
Rostoker is president and CEO of Microelectronics Research Inc.,
the semiconductor subsidiary of Kawasaki Group. 
He apparently is well-known in the patent and technology field,
particularly in relation to Pacific Rim issues. His credentials,
outlined on a Web site at Stanford University, where he studied
last year for a post-doctoral law degree, include published books,
recognition by California Lawyer magazine as one of the state's
top patent attorneys and past director of the 
National Inventors Council.
He once designed computer systems for General Electric, 
has done legal work for Intel and was vice president of 
strategic alliances at LSI Logic, according to the Web site.

Federal prosecutors also charged a San Jose man, 
Tri Roy Cole, 40, with assisting in Rostoker's alleged efforts 
to bring the girl into the country illegally with falsified 
immigration papers.
Rostoker, who lives in Boulder Creek, has also worked in executive
positions for several valley technology companies.
According to an affidavit filed by Robin Sterzer, 
a U.S. Customs agent, San Jose police received a tip in July 
that Rostoker had arranged to bring the girl into the 
United States by paying her family and setting up phony documents
that would portray her as 18 years old.
Rostoker, the affidavit alleges, had traveled repeatedly to 
Vietnam and had sex with the girl. He at one point bought her 
a computer so they could communicate by e-mail, and those 
communications were seized by federal agents, according to 
court papers.
If convicted, Rostoker faces a maximum sentence of 15 years 
in prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dave Calloway argued that 
Rostoker should remain in custody because he is a flight risk 
and might be a threat to other witnesses, including Cole, 
the co-defendant in the case.

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