Judge Overturns Economic Espionage Charges for Former Google Engineer
A federal judge overturned Linwei Ding’s economic espionage convictions, handing him a legal reprieve. The ruling removed seven convictions that carried up to 15 years in prison and a $5 million fine, while finding evidence supported his convictions on seven counts of stealing Google trade secrets. Prosecutors said Ding took thousands of pages tied to AI data-center hardware and software used to train large models.