Santa Ana (US): A Chinese-born engineer convicted of espionage and other federal charges in California has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Dongfan "Greg" Chung was sentenced yesterday in Santa
Ana after a judge ruled in July he hoarded sensitive
information about the US space shuttle and a booster rocket
with the intent to pass it to China. It was the United States'
first trial on economic espionage charges.
The government believes Chung, 74, began spying for
the Chinese in the late 1970s. Prosecutors say the stress
analyst used his 30-year career at Boeing Co. and Rockwell
International to collect 300,000 pages of sensitive documents.
Chung has been in custody since he was convicted of
economic espionage, acting as a foreign agent, conspiracy and
lying to federal agents.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 09:36