Chinese Espionage Latest Target: Liquid Paper

Spell check features in word processing programs sent correction fluid the way of the buggy whip. Walter Liew and Robert Maegerle, however, saw a $28 million dollar payout to sell the secrets to, among other things, Liquid Paper. It is doubtful that they can “white out” the bars of their new prison cells, though.

Liew, a California engineering consultant, and Maegerle, a retired engineer, were convicted in what may be the first federal jury conviction under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 for economic espionage, trade-secret theft, witness tampering, and making false statements.

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