United States Vs Walter Liew Case Summary

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In the case of United States vs. Walter Liew, Liew is being charged with over 20 criminal counts, with one of them being misappropriation of trade secrets (Levine). Liew had gotten paid millions of dollars by a Chinese company to apprehend trade secrets of the American company
Dupont in order to solidify the company in China.
Liew, 56, living in California, received 28 million in order to bribe engineers and other employees for confidential paperwork that the Chinese company wanted. What was the score? A chemical pigment recipe that could make things such as paper, plastics, and lots of other items whiter (Levine). Staring a company to cover up what he was doing, engineering consulting firm, the engineers he hired were straight from the company

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