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PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Elkton, MD McLean PERMIT #31 Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 02-12-09 Michael DeRose of the McLean Rotary Club presents one of this year’s Youth Service awards to McLean High School student Cecilia Lam. Classifieds, Page 17 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, Page 16 ❖ Faith, Page 14 ❖ Recognizing Teens Calendar, Page 11 ❖ Who Serve Opinion, Page 6 News, Page 3 Professional Theater Comes to Koger Tysons Corner Sentenced Entertainment, Page 10 In Embezzlement News, Page 3 Photo by Mike DiCicco/The Connection Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comFebruary 11-17, 2009 ❖ Volume XXIII, Number 6 Read us online McLeanat connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ February 11-17, 2009 ❖ 1 2 ❖ McLean Connection ❖ February 11-17, 2009 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com McLean Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-917-6428 or [email protected] Recognizing Teens Who Serve Others Koger McLean Rotary bestows annual Sentenced Youth Service awards. Hundreds of local homeowners associa- nsup Lee is president of Langley High ISchool’s Korean Club and a member of tions victimized. the National Honor Society, and he tu- tors other students while earning perfect grades. The high-school senior’s interest in effrey Scott Koger, 39 of Oak Hill, Korea’s diplomatic history led him to start was sentenced last week in federal a program for summarizing and catalogu- Jcourt to more than five years in ing documents on that subject in the Library prison and ordered to pay more of Congress. than $2 million in restitution. However, none of these are the reason he Koger embezzled more than $3 million received one of the McLean Rotary Club’s from many of the 400-plus Northern Vir- Youth Service awards, presented at a lun- ginia homeowners associations that con- cheon last Tuesday, Feb. 3. Recipients of the tracted services from his family’s company, awards are chosen for their embodiment of Koger Management Group, located in the Rotary motto, “Service above self.” Fairfax. Lee was one of three area students cho- Rotarian Michael DeRose introduces Langley student Insup Lee, who KMG collected homeowners association sen for the awards this year. Also receiving works to give hope and inspiration to other teens battling cancer. dues and provided a variety of financial and plaques and $400 checks were Cecilia Lam Photos by Mike DiCicco/The Connection maintenance services for the HOAs. of McLean High School and Elyse Marriott Homeowners associations in virtually every of the Potomac School. part of Northern Virginia were affected, in- cluding in Ashburn, Chantilly, Arlington, ROTARIAN MICHAEL DEROSE, who Burke, Springfield, McLean, Reston, Mount organizes the youth awards program, now Vernon and Alexandria, among others. in its fourth year, said Lee’s nomination was Neither the United States government nor among the most overwhelming he had ever Jeffrey Koger’s defense attorney call his seen. “This is one of the most remarkable criminal actions “sophisticated,” but Koger stories,” he told the Rotarians gathered for used more than 140 bank wire transfers to the luncheon at the Lutheran Church of the move the money for his own purposes. The Redeemer. embezzlement was conducted over the Diagnosed with leukemia, now in remis- course of several years. sion, Lee founded To the Next Stage, an “The defendant took steps to cover up and organization that encourages teens with explain away his criminal behavior which cancer to continue their studies and pursue made his theft more difficult to detect,” ac- their goals. Lee also shares his story as a cording to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack counselor at Camp Fantastic, a camp for Hanly. “A significant term of incarceration children with cancer. He created a back-to- is needed to reflect the seriousness of the school program for parents of children with defendant’s crime, to impose just punish- cancer, was the speaker at the Growing ment, and to deter him from future of- Hope annual picnic and volunteers with fenses.” patients at Children’s National Medical Cen- Koger, who also faces criminal charges in ter for Oncology and Hematology. From left, Youth Service awards organizer Michael DeRose poses with Fairfax County (see below), pleaded guilty “When I shook his hand for the first time, award winners Insup Lee, Elyse Marriott and Cecillia Lam, as well as to wire fraud and tax evasion last Novem- I knew this young man was destined to go McLean Rotary president Lois Wilson and Stan Richards of the Rotary ber. on to do great things,” said Jennifer Foundation. U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Baldesare, the Langley counselor who Brinkema sentenced Koger Friday, Feb. 6 to nominated Lee for the award, adding native House, Vienna’s crisis shelter for 66 months in prison and ordered that he that he “exemplified what it means to put “He’s truly a real mentor and teens, and is working with another pay more than $1.2 million in restitution others before self” and was also one of McLean student to create a video that as well as $775,272 to the IRS for tax eva- the best students she had known. all these patients have will promote community relations with sion. Through To the Next Stage, Lee had the shelter. And Lam volunteers at the Koger was the former Chief Financial Of- motivated other teens by talking about benefited from his strength.” Holocaust Museum, where she gives pre- ficer of his father’s real estate management his own experiences and distributed — Jennifer Baldesare sentations and acts as a translator for firm, Koger Management Group, which filed pamphlets about teen cancer at local Chinese and Hispanic visitors, and men- for bankruptcy in July 2007. Robert Koger, hospitals, Baldesare said. “He’s truly a real enced by music and she used music to in- tors young musicians in the Queens Taiwan- the defendant’s father, reported to the mentor and all these patients have benefited fluence the lives of those around her.” A ese Evangelical Church Summer Youth Or- Fairfax City Police in November 2006 that from his strength.” classical violinist, Lam founded and leads chestra. he believed his son had embezzled DeRose asked whether he correctly un- Union of Productive Performances, through $800,000, kicking off the investigation. derstood that Lee had kept his grades up which she assembles musicians from her HER GUIDANCE COUNSELOR, Isabelle “The defendant’s crimes caused substan- during three months of daily chemotherapy. school to give free concerts at the Rahn, said Lam “represents what is best in tial harm to numerous individuals, includ- He had. Asked where he would be attend- Lewinsville Senior Residences. The perform- today’s youth.” She also noted that Lam ing: KMG which was forced to dissolve and ing college, Lee said he wasn’t sure — he ers encourage audience participation and would be performing at the Kennedy Cen- declare bankruptcy; KMG’s employees, had been accepted by Stanford, but was still engage the seniors in discussions about ter later this month at Youth Orchestra Day many of whom lost their jobs as a result of waiting to hear from Harvard. music, as it relates to different periods in with the National Symphony. the dissolution; the more than 350 HOA Introducing Lam, DeRose said, “This is their lives. Lam said she started Union of Productive someone whose life has been greatly influ- She also organizes fund-raisers for Alter- See Rotarians, Page 7 See New, Page 5 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com McLean Connection ❖ February 11-17, 2009 ❖ 3 News Blocking Metrorail Bulova Becomes Chairman Noise Democrat wins Wolf, MWAA special election by “Working together, we will come exchange letters. slim margin Feb. 3. through these difficult financial times.” — Fairfax Chairman Sharon Bulova t appears that the McLean Citi- By Julia O’Donoghue zens Association (MCA) has U.S. The Connection by Photo I Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10) on its side with regard to noise mitigation along ormer Braddock District Su- the Dulles Access Road Extension. But pervisor Sharon Bulova (D) Julia O’Donoghue it is not yet clear what measures will Fwas sworn in as the Fairfax be taken to reduce noise from exist- County Board of Supervisor’s new- ing traffic and the coming Metrorail est chairman at the county government cen- along that stretch of the Dulles Trans- ter Feb. 6. portation Corridor. Bulova defeated Springfield Supervisor Last year, members of the MCA Plan- Patrick Herrity (R) by 1,217 votes, a mar- ning and Zoning Committee co-chair gin of less than two percent, in a special /The Connection Mark Zetts and other members of the election for the countywide seat three days association’s board of directors took earlier. She replaces now U.S. Rep. Gerry measurements of the noise already Connolly (D-11), who left the office to join generated by traffic along the exten- the U.S. Congress in early January. sion of Route 267 that runs from Route A 21-year county board veteran, Bulova 123 to Interstate 66, through the serves as chair of the supervisor’s budget southwest corner of the McLean area. committee and was a founder of the Vir- Sharon Bulova addressed the crowd after her swearing in as Fairfax At the association’s January meet- ginia Railway Express (VRE), a commuter County chairman Feb. 6. ing, Zetts presented the results of the train to Washington D.C. with stations in study, saying the measurements more southern and central Fairfax. or less resembled those documented In opening remarks at the swearing Contributed by Fairf in the Dulles Rail Project’s environ- in ceremony, Fairfax County public in- Fairfax County Chairman mental impact study but were often formation officer Merni Fitzgerald also higher than the Washington Metro- said Bulova had “championed the re- Special Election Results politan Area Transportation development of Tysons Corner as an en- Fairfax County provided these returns for the Fairfax Authority’s (WMATA) standard of 50 County chairman special election Feb.