Ex-Motorola worker guilty of trade secret theft, not espionage

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http://www.suntimes.com/business/10508983-420/ex-motorola-worker-guilty-of-trade-secret-theft-not-espionage.html

By Sandra Guy
Business Reporter
suntimes.com
February 8, 2012

A Chicago federal judge found a former engineer at Motorola Inc. who was 
stopped at O’Hare International Airport five years ago with company documents 
guilty of stealing trade secrets from Motorola but not guilty of corporate 
espionage.

Hanjuan Jin, 41, had waived her right to a jury trial on charges of 
trade-secret theft and economic espionage, leaving it to Judge Ruben Castillo 
to announce a verdict at the hearing Wednesday.

Prosecutors accused Jin of stealing confidential information from the 
Schaumburg-based cellphone company, knowing it would likely end up with China’s 
military.

John Murphy, attorney for Jin, said, “While we are disappointed on the guilty 
verdicts, the overall verdict is a full repudiation of everything the 
government has pushed for five years — that she was a spy.”

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the guilty verdicts should show the 
corporate community that “we take these trade secret cases very seriously” and 
that such cases can be tried successfully without revealing the trade secrets 
themselves.

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