Former Dow scientist sentenced for espionage

The lawsuit against an ex-Dow AgroSciences researcher who stole trade secrets worth approximately $7 million from the company and gave them to a Chinese university ended with a prison sentence of seven years and three months, according to prosecutors who spoke with Businessweek.com.  

U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence in Indianapolis sentenced Kexue Huang, 46, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett’s office.

Huang is Chinese national that pleaded guilty in October to economic espionage. He worked for Dow in Indianapolis from 2003 to 2008 and researched the development of organically derived pesticides, according to Businessweek.com.

The case is the first to be tried in Indiana under a provision of the Economic Espionage Act, which bans trade-secret stealing to benefit a foreign government.

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This is great but it is a drop in the bucket of what is Chinese espionage. What is really shocking is what is not illegal. Our universities are giving huge amounts of technology to china and most of it is legal because we give our universities so much freedom but we need administrators who recognize that not everything that is legal is right. We need some more patriotism from our university administrators. Do you know that every Chinese engineering student is given a hard disk drive to take home with them when they go back to China? Read more at www.china-threat.com