Ex-Ford engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

POSTED: 3:07 P.M. OCT. 15, 2009 | UPDATED: 4:06 P.M. TODAY
Ex-Ford engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
BY BEN SCHMITT AND BRENT SNAVELY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS


A former product engineer for the Ford Motor Co. has been indicted on allegations that he stole trade secrets from the automaker, federal officials in Detroit announced today.

Xiang Dong Yu, aka Mike Yu, 47, of Beijing, China, was arrested Wednesday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after he exited a flight from China. He is charged with theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer.

According to an indictment, Yu was a product engineer for the Ford Motor Co. from 1997 to 2007 and had access to Ford trade secrets, including Ford design documents. In December 2006, Yu accepted a job at the China branch of a U.S. company.

The indictment alleges that on the eve of his departure from Ford and before he told Ford of his new job, Yu copied 4,000 Ford documents onto an external hard drive, including sensitive Ford design documents. Included in those documents were system design specifications for an engine/transmission mounting subsystem, electrical distribution system, electric power supply, electrical subsystem and generic body module, among others.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20091015/BUSINESS0102/91015037/1319/Ex-Ford-engineer-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. Oh No... The Chinese have the plans for the 2011 Canyonero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56gL9MpyUDQ

[Endangered Specie]

2. Karma for outsourcing?

[tazkcmo]

3. Damn those devious bastards!

Now the Chinese can make shitty cars nobody wants too!

[izzybeans]

6. apparently a U.S. company in China can make them in china

But Ford does well over there

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fords-china-joint-venture-may-sales-jump-49

[mule_train]

4. another dividend of the H-1b program

'hey, we should'a kept the american we forced train this spy!'

think how much taxpayer money was spent on this investigation, just so ford could fire an american worker

[izzybeans]

5. What U.S. company?

[olddad56]

7. Ford has secrets? Must not be design secrets.

[baldguy]

8. The Chinese were finding out what NOT to do.