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Ex-Intel Employee Indicted on $1 Billion Trade Secrets Theft
Daily Tech ^ | November 6, 2008 | Michael Barkoviak

Posted on 11/07/2008 6:59:24 PM PST by enduserindy

A federal grand jury has indicted a former Intel employee whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accused of stealing trade secrets from the company. Biswamohan Pani, 33, allegedly was found with more than 100 pages of Intel documents, with 13 "top secret" file also discovered inside his residence. Intel put more than $1 billion of research and development money into the documents Pani stole, which includes future CPU designs. "The indictment was not a surprise," said Bradford Bailey, Pani's attorney. "We knew it was coming. We will enter a plea of not guilty when an arraignment date is set, and he will vigorously contest the charges because he is innocent."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicom; espionage; tech; theft
I did a search, hope not a repost. I haven't seen it anywhere else either. I would bet this isn't necessarily industrial espionage.
1 posted on 11/07/2008 6:59:25 PM PST by enduserindy
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To: enduserindy

Not that an AMD denial is conclusive but the FBI seems to think they’re innocent so if AMD wasn’t paying him who was he selling this info to?


2 posted on 11/07/2008 7:11:16 PM PST by fiftymegaton
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To: ShadowAce

/mark


3 posted on 11/07/2008 7:16:44 PM PST by KoRn
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To: enduserindy
Ha ha ha

An H1-B screws them

Ha ha ha

Karma's a bitch, ain't it??!

4 posted on 11/07/2008 7:34:48 PM PST by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe)
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To: fiftymegaton

Chinois or the Injuns no doubt.


5 posted on 11/07/2008 7:46:31 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: enduserindy
... allegedly ... 100 pages of Intel documents, with 13 "top secret" file also discovered inside his residence.

... he will vigorously contest the charges because he is innocent."

Shouldn't that be, "because he is allegedly innocent?"

6 posted on 11/07/2008 8:04:06 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: enduserindy

Chinese.

Didn’t they buy IBM a while back?


7 posted on 11/07/2008 8:09:38 PM PST by IreneE (Live for nothing or die for something.)
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To: IreneE

No, they bought the PC division of IBM, now called Lenovo.


8 posted on 11/07/2008 8:15:29 PM PST by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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