Chinese national sentenced for stealing Monsanto trade secret

[Sherman A1]

A Chinese national who pleaded guilty earlier this year to stealing a trade secret from agribusiness giant Monsanto while he worked in Missouri has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Haitao Xiang, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in St. Louis to 29 months in prison and fined $150,000. Xiang also must undergo three years of supervision upon his release from prison.

In January, Xiang pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit economic espionage. Federal prosecutors said Xiang transferred a trade secret to a memory card and then attempted to take it to China for the benefit of the Chinese government.

Xiang worked as an imaging scientist for Monsanto and one of its subsidiaries, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017.

https://krcgtv.com/news/local/chinese-national-sentenced-for-stealing-monsanto-trade-secret-haitao-xiang-chesterfield-missouri-the-climate-corporation-nutrient-optimizer-algorithm-matthew-olsen

[flying_wahini]

1. The article isn't clear on if he actually got to take it with him to China?

And he came back after having his theft uncovered? Two years doesn’t sound nearly long enough.

Don’t you know this shit happens all the time. Makes me so angry but knowing it was
Monsanto is a tiny bit comforting. LOL!

[Backseat Driver]

2. The trade secret(?): How to make Jack's magic beans (Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum, I smell the blood of an ...)

grow like weed(s) while creating and maintaining alchemic golden gooses and the new bodily process by which the glyphosate pathway in the human body transforms itself into mind-numbing carfentanyl LOL!