[ISN] Prosecutor: Accused Mass. spy stole $100m in secrets for China

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:25:42 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/accused_spy_fro.html

By Jonathan Saltzman and Martin Finucane
Globe Staff 
Boston.com
July 19, 2010

WORCESTER -- A federal judge in Worcester is pondering whether to grant 
bail to a 45-year-old Westborough man who, in a highly unusual case, is 
accused of economic espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets about 
insecticides to China.

Kexue Huang faces a dozen counts of economic espionage to benefit a 
foreign government or instrumentality, as well as five counts of 
interstate or foreign transport of stolen property.

Assistant US Attorney Scott Garland said only six or seven people had 
ever been charged with the crime. He said the value of the information 
that Huang allegedly passed on exceeded $100 million.

The allegations mainly concern the period from January 2003 to February 
2008, when Huang worked at Dow Chemical in Indiana. Huang allegedly 
conveyed the information to Hunan Normal University, prosecutors said 
today at a bail hearing in federal court in Worcester.

Further details about the case were unavailable. The indictment against 
Huang, handed up by a grand jury in Indiana, remains sealed.

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