New York Man Sentenced for Stealing GE's Trade Secrets

Yang Sui, a resident of Niskayuna, New York, was sentenced to one year of probation and to pay a $5,000 fine for stealing trade secrets from General Electric Company, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York announced in an April 30 press release. Sui admitted he stole multiple electronic files containing insider information about the research, development, design and manufacture of silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from GE, the release said. He admitted to also planning to establish his own rival company to sell MOSFETs; however, there was no evidence that Sui traded the secrets to any other party, it said.