Ex-GE Engineer Sentenced to Two Years for Trade Secret Theft (1)

A former General Electric Co. employee was sentenced to 24 months in prison for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from the company for China.

Xiaoqing Zheng will also have to undergo a year of post-imprisonment supervised release, and was fined $7,500, US District Court for the Northern District of New York Judge Mae A. D’Agostino ruled. A jury convicted Zheng, who worked at GE from 2008 to 2018, of helping China steal trade secrets related to ground-based and aviation-based turbine technologies in April.

“This is a case of textbook economic espionage. Zheng exploited his position of trust, betrayed his ...