Deloitte Criminal Trade Secrets Case Revived Against Ex-Workers

Criminal claims that former Deloitte LLP employees stole trade secrets shouldn’t have been dropped based on loss of evidence and witnesses during a six-year investigation, the Fourth Circuit said.

A lower court erroneously found the length of the US government’s investigation into David Minkkinen and Sivaraman Sambasivam constituted a due process violation, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said Thursday.

Even if the death of two key witnesses during the investigation and loss of evidence by state agencies that contracted with Deloitte hampered their defense, the length of a good-faith investigation can’t itself be unconstitutional, said Circuit ...