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Walter Liew, California man, sentenced to 15 years for espionage
[FOXNEWS] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, chemical engineer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $28 million after his rare economic-espionage conviction for selling China the technology that creates a white pigment.A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Walter Liew's theft of DuPont Co.'s secret recipe for making cars, paper and a long list of everyday items whiter warranted the lengthy prison sentence. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White said Liew had turned against his adopted country over greed. A jury convicted the 56-year-old Liew of receiving $28 million from companies controlled by the Chinese government in exchange for DuPont's technology. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-11 |
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