After pleading guilty to violating the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations and federal criminal law, James Meharing, owner of Turbine Resources International, LLC in Pensacola, Florida was sentenced to 40 months in prison for conspiring to ship a Solar Mars 90 S turbine core engine to Dubai for an Iranian energy company. Meharing falsified documents used to legally export items from the United States and received a payment of $250,000 in laundered funds from a conspirator in the United Kingdom. The turbine was seized by law enforcement authorities before it reached the Iranian company.