Chinese Spy Gets More Than 15 Years in Prison
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A Chinese-born engineer convicted of espionage and other federal charges has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Dongfan "Greg" Chung was sentenced Monday in Santa Ana after a judge ruled in July that he hoarded sensitive information about the U.S. space shuttle and a booster rocket with the intent to pass it to China. It was the first trial on economic espionage charges in U.S. history.
The government believes the 74-year-old Chung 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 in his home.
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Chung has been in custody since being convicted of economic espionage, acting as a foreign agent, conspiracy and lying to federal agents.