A New York man was sentenced on Jan. 3 to two years in federal prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from General Electric (GE) to benefit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Xiaoqing Zheng, 59, of Niskayuna, New York, was convicted of conspiracy to commit economic espionage following a four-week jury trial in March last year, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino also ordered Zheng to pay a $7,500 fine and serve one year of post-imprisonment supervised release.
Zheng, an engineer specializing in turbine sealing technology, was an employee at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, from 2008 until the summer of 2018, the DOJ said….