A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Arthur Budovsky had pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering. The online facility, shut down in 2013, had operated out of Costa Rica. Prosecutors in New York said many of its clients had been cyber criminals who had sought to move funds anonymously. Two other men involved in the business were sentenced to shorter jail terms. Two more people will be sentenced on 13 May. The authorities are still trying to locate a further two suspects.Liberty Reserve had advertised itself as the internet's "oldest, safest and most popular payment processor... serving millions all around the world". Users had to provide a name, date of birth and an email address - but prosecutors said fake credentials had been accepted. Account holders "converted" their cash into one of the company's digital currencies, following which an "instantaneous" transfer was made and the sum converted back into real-world cash. For this, the company charged ...