Read the record behind the claim.

Court Imposes Maximum Fine on Sinovel Wind Group for Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 6, 2018 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Sentencing release summarizing the jury verdict, trial evidence, court loss finding, and sentence.

Sinovel Corporation and Three Individuals Charged in Wisconsin with Theft of AMSC Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jun 27, 2013 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging-stage source; allegations in this release are not treated as findings unless later established at trial.

United States v. Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd., No. 14-3013 ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit via Justia · Published Jul 23, 2015 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Pretrial procedural opinion describing Sinovel’s jurisdictional and comity arguments.

Chinese Government Intelligence Officer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Espionage Crimes, Attempting to Steal Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Nov 16, 2022 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Trial and sentencing summary; the later commutation is documented separately.

United States v. Yanjun Xu, Amended Opinion, No. 22-4056 ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Published Aug 30, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Appellate opinion affirming the conviction and sentence and describing the evidentiary record.

Commutations Granted by President Joseph Biden (2021–2025) ↗

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney · Published Jan 19, 2025 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Official index recording Xu’s November 22, 2024 commutation and linking the signed warrant.

Executive Grant of Clemency for Yanjun Xu ↗

The White House via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Nov 22, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Signed clemency warrant commuting imprisonment to time served while leaving the conviction intact.

United States v. Liew, 856 F.3d 585 ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Published May 5, 2017 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Published appellate opinion describing the evidence, affirming the core trade-secret and economic-espionage convictions, reversing separate counts, and remanding.

Walter Liew Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Prison for Economic Espionage ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 11, 2014 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Original sentencing summary; the later appellate remand and resentencing are separately documented.

United States v. Liew, Order Granting Motion to Reduce Sentence ↗

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California via FindLaw · Published Jun 15, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Court order recounting the surviving convictions and 2018 resentencing to 144 months.

DOJ Drops Espionage Charges Against DuPont's Chinese Competitor ↗

Bloomberg Law · Published Jul 14, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current procedural reporting on the government's dismissal with prejudice during the Pangang trial.

Ph.D. Chemist Sentenced to 168 Months for Economic Espionage and Trade-Secret Offenses ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published May 9, 2022 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Original sentencing summary; the prison sentence was later vacated and is not presented as the final term.

United States v. You, 74 F.4th 378 ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Published Jul 11, 2023 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Published opinion affirming every conviction, vacating the sentence, and describing the access, copying, grant, and defense record.

United States v. Xiaorong You, Memorandum Opinion and Order on Intended Loss ↗

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee via GovInfo · Published Sep 11, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Post-remand ruling estimating intended loss at $30.45 million before resentencing.

Resident of China Sentenced for Conspiring to Send Electric-Vehicle Company Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Dec 16, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Guilty-plea and sentencing summary using the court's anonymized victim designations.

Complaint and Affidavit, United States v. Pflugbeil and Shao ↗

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Mar 18, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Probable-cause allegations used for sequence detail; unadjudicated allegations are not presented as findings against Shao.

Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Economic Espionage and Theft of Confidential AI Technology ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jan 30, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Jury-verdict and trial-evidence summary; the later partial acquittal supersedes its description of the economic-espionage outcome.

United States v. Ding, Order on Motion for Judgment of Acquittal or New Trial ↗

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California via GovInfo · Published Jun 29, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Court order sustaining the theft verdicts and reserving the government-benefit question for a later opinion.

Ex-Google Engineer's Conviction for Stealing AI Secrets Partially Overturned ↗

Reuters via StreetInsider · Published Aug 20, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current report on the August 20 acquittal of the economic-espionage counts, the surviving theft convictions, and pending sentencing.

Chinese Citizen Sentenced for Economic Espionage, Theft of Trade Secrets, and Conspiracy ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California · Published Sep 1, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Sentencing and bench-trial findings, including the beneficiary, commercialization path, restitution, and forfeiture.

Chinese Professors Among Six Defendants Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published May 19, 2015 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging-stage chronology and entity structure; allegations against people other than Zhang are not treated as adjudicated.

Chinese Telecommunications Company Fined $50 Million for Conspiring to Steal Technology from Motorola Solutions ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois · Published Mar 9, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current corporate sentencing, loss finding, employee-case status, and offense summary.

Plea Agreement: United States v. Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd. ↗

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jan 14, 2025 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Corporate admissions and agreed factual basis; used independently from unresolved allegations against individual defendants.

Jury Verdict: T-Mobile USA, Inc. v. Huawei Device USA, Inc. ↗

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington via China IPR · Published May 18, 2017 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Public mirror of docket document 484; the verdict form separates misappropriation, damages, willfulness, and contract findings.

Indictment: United States v. Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Device USA, Inc. ↗

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jan 16, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Detailed criminal allegations; cited as allegations only because the defendants pleaded not guilty and no verdict had been entered.

Statement Regarding T-Mobile's Trade Secret Allegation ↗

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Published Jan 28, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Huawei's response stressing the civil jury's zero trade-secret damages, no unjust enrichment, and no willfulness finding.

Memorandum Decision and Order: United States v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. ↗

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York via GovInfo · Published Apr 13, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current procedural evidence that the broader Huawei criminal case remained in pretrial litigation with an upcoming trial.

Man Who Worked at Local Research Institute for 10 Years Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Dec 11, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Zhou plea summary with employment, company, technology, and government-benefit facts.

Plea Agreement: United States v. Li Chen ↗

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 30, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Signed plea agreement and statement of facts.

Hospital Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets and Sell Them in China ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Feb 1, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chen sentencing summary, including restitution and forfeiture.

Hospital Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets and Sell Them in China ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Apr 20, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Zhou sentencing summary, including the fine, joint restitution, and forfeiture.

Federal Judge Revokes Naturalization of Married Couple Who Conspired to Steal Medical Trade Secrets and Share Them with China ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Mar 31, 2026 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Summary of March 30, 2026 civil orders and the underlying criminal record.

Former GlaxoSmithKline Scientist Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trade Secrets to Benefit Chinese Pharmaceutical Company ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania · Published Aug 31, 2018 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Xue's plea, transfer methods, document categories, Renopharma relationship, and government subsidies.

United States v. Yu Xue and Tao Li, Precedential Opinion ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · Published Aug 2, 2022 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Controlling appellate account of the pleas, approximately 200 documents, sentences, product-use record, and $0 actual and intended pecuniary loss findings.

Chinese National Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa · Published Oct 6, 2016 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Plea, intended recipient, sentence, forfeiture, and origin of the investigation.

Protecting Vital Assets: Pilfering of Corn Seeds Illustrates Intellectual Property Theft ↗

Federal Bureau of Investigation · Published Dec 19, 2016 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Operational chronology, field detection, shipment detail, and Pioneer's attributed research-time and cost estimate.

Chinese National Sentenced for Economic Espionage Conspiracy ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Apr 7, 2022 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current adjudicated outcome, admitted PRC benefit, employment, airport search, institute role, and sentence.

Chinese National Who Worked at Monsanto Indicted on Economic Espionage Charges ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Nov 21, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging-stage chronology and talent-plan allegation; superseded by the narrower 2022 guilty plea for findings of guilt.

Chinese National Who Conspired to Hack into U.S. Defense Contractors' Systems Sentenced to 46 Months ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 13, 2016 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Current sentencing account of the admitted conspiracy, military participants, targets, transfer, reporting, and sentence.

Plea Agreement for Defendant Su Bin ↗

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California via U.S. Department of Justice · Published Mar 23, 2016 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Signed plea and agreed factual basis detailing targeting, file selection, translation, financial motive, and PLA reporting.

Kawasaki Wins High-Speed Train Order for China ↗

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. · Published Oct 20, 2004 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Contemporaneous disclosure of the order, finished and knock-down trains, local production, and Kawasaki's production-technology transfer.

Joint Venture for Rolling Stock Engineering Company in China ↗

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. · Published Feb 22, 2005 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Contemporaneous joint-venture ownership, engineering, hiring, market, and procurement objectives from Kawasaki's perspective.

Made in China 2025: Evaluating China's Performance ↗

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission · Published Nov 14, 2025 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Later assessment of rail technology-transfer conditions, self-sufficiency, CRRC competition, import localization, and the limits of China's export performance.

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Oct 18, 2011 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chinese National Sentenced to 87 Months for Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Dec 21, 2011 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Former Boeing Engineer Convicted of Economic Espionage in Theft of Space Shuttle Secrets for China ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 16, 2009 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Former Boeing Engineer Sentenced to Nearly 16 Years for Economic Espionage ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California · Published Feb 8, 2010 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Indictment: United States v. Xiaoqing Zheng and Zhaoxi Zhang ↗

U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York · Published Apr 23, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging document; allegations are distinguished from the later verdict.

Former GE Power Engineer Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Economic Espionage ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Mar 31, 2022 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Former GE Power Engineer Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Economic Espionage ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York · Published Jan 3, 2023 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Committing Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Nov 12, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chinese National Sentenced for Stealing Trade Secrets Worth $1 Billion ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Feb 27, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

The headline repeats the victim company's valuation; the sentence included $150,000 restitution.

Insider Threat Case Study: Hongjin Tan ↗

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency · Published Feb 27, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage and Theft of a Trade Secret ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York · Published May 19, 2017 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Chinese National Sentenced for Economic Espionage and Theft of a Trade Secret from U.S. Company ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jan 18, 2018 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Ex-IBM employee from China gets five years in prison for stealing code ↗

Reuters via Business Standard · Published Jan 20, 2018 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Identifies the otherwise unnamed victim company as IBM from Xu's public employment record.

Chinese National Admits Stealing Sensitive Military Program Documents from United Technologies ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut · Published Dec 19, 2016 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Export and Sanctions Enforcement Cases: Yu Long Case Summary ↗

U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division · Published May 26, 2017 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

PRC State-Owned Company, Taiwan Company, and Three Individuals Charged with Economic Espionage ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California · Published Nov 1, 2018 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging allegations, not findings against Jinhua.

Taiwan Company Pleads Guilty to Trade Secret Theft in PRC State-Owned Company Case ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Oct 29, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Minutes: Judgment of Acquittal in United States v. Fujian Jinhua ↗

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · Published Feb 27, 2024 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Mirror of the federal court minutes documenting the complete acquittal.

Four Chinese Nationals Working with Ministry of State Security Charged in Global Computer Intrusion Campaign ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging allegations; defendants are presumed innocent.

U.S. Government Releases Indictment and Advisories Detailing Chinese Cyber Campaign ↗

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

APT40 Cyber Espionage Activities Wanted Poster ↗

Federal Bureau of Investigation · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China's MSS Hainan State Security Department ↗

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Texas Man Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Theft of Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Jul 29, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

American Businessman Sentenced in Theft of Syntactic Foam Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Department of Justice · Published Feb 11, 2020 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

United States v. Shan Shi, Opinion Affirming Conviction ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · Published Mar 23, 2021 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Indictment: United States v. Yu Qin and Shanshan Du ↗

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan · Published Jul 22, 2010 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging document; later verdict and appeal control the outcome statements.

Eastern District of Michigan Annual Report for 2013 ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan · Published Dec 31, 2013 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

United States v. Shanshan Du and Yu Qin, Opinion Affirming Convictions ↗

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Published Jun 26, 2014 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Criminal Complaint: United States v. Ji Li Huang and Xiao Guang Qi ↗

U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri · Published Sep 4, 2012 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Charging account; later guilty pleas establish the conspiracy.

Chinese Business Owner and Employee Plead Guilty and Are Sentenced for Stealing Trade Secrets ↗

U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri · Published Jan 25, 2013 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Statement by ASML's Board of Management in Light of the XTAL Court Case ↗

ASML · Published Apr 17, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

U.S. Court Issues Final Judgment in Favor of ASML Against XTAL ↗

ASML · Published May 4, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Judgment in ASML US, Inc. v. XTAL, Inc. ↗

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara · Published May 3, 2019 · Retrieved Aug 23, 2026

Court judgment hosted by counsel for ASML.