Eight listening devices were found in the automaker’s meeting rooms on July 11 following a search of its building by federal agents. Three weeks earlier, a search warrant was served on the residence of former engineer, Sharon Leach, in Wyandotte. Several Sansa listening devices like this one seen here were found inside of Ford Motor Co.’s meeting rooms after a …
California man sentenced to 15 years for corporate spying on DuPont
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him $28 million after his rare economic-espionage conviction for selling China the technology that creates a white pigment. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland said Walter Liew had “turned against his adopted country over greed.” A jury previously convicted the 56-year-old Liew …