Selling a Pigment Process

An engineer ran a small technology consulting company. Prosecutors said he recruited retired employees of a large chemical maker and used their inside knowledge to sell that maker's secret method for producing a white pigment used in paint and plastics. The buyers were companies owned by a foreign government, and the contracts were worth about twenty-eight million dollars. He was also accused of lying to investigators and tampering with evidence. The law requires proof the information was a genuine trade secret.