Former GE Power Engineer Convicted of Conspiracy, U.S. DOJ Says

A former GE Power engineer was convicted of conspiracy to commit economic espionage after a four-week jury trial, the Department of Justice said.

• Xiaoqing Zheng, 59, of Niskayuna, worked at GE from 2008 until the summer of 2018
• DOJ said Zheng and others in China conspired to steal GE’s trade secrets surrounding GE’s steam and gas turbine technologies, knowing or intending to benefit China
• The jury acquitted Zheng of two counts of economic espionage and two counts of trade secret theft
  • The jury could not reach a verdict on one count of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, two counts ...