Former engineer sentenced to 15 years for stealing aerospace secrets for China
February 8th, 2010
| Tags: aerospace engineer, defense contractors, national security, southern california, top stories
Los Angeles Times
A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle information and other documents for China.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana imposed a 188-month prison term on Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 73, a naturalized U.S. citizen who resides in Orange.
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