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06-18-2008, 03:57 PM
Chinese-Canadian engineer sentenced to 24 months in economic espionage case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Canadian citizen who admitted he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy has been sentenced to 24 months in a U.S. prison.

Forty-four-year-old Xiaodong Sheldon Meng is the first person sentenced on the rare charge of committing economic espionage against the U.S. It's the most serious crime under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996.

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Laworkerbee
06-18-2008, 04:01 PM
24 months eh?

Nothing is taken seriously anymore :roll:

Henry's Fork
06-18-2008, 04:07 PM
What a f-ing joke our justice system is.

Wonder what type of sentence a US spy caught in China would get?

Mackie
06-18-2008, 04:08 PM
Chinese espionage?
Surprised, surprised! rofl

My companys R&D area looks more and more like a NASA center in security.