Ex-Google engineer who stole trade secrets sentenced to nearly 12 months
The judge ordered Linwei Ding to pay more than $198,000 in restitution after finding he stole 1,255 Google documents, prosecutors said.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria sentenced former Google software engineer Linwei Ding to 12 months, minus one day, for stealing proprietary artificial intelligence trade secrets.
- Between 2022 and 2023, Ding transferred 1,255 internal Google documents, comprising 14,000 pages, attempting to benefit a company he was forming in China, according to court documents.
- While the probation office recommended six months, prosecutors sought 70 months, and defense attorney Grant Fondo requested three months of home confinement for his client.
- Chhabria ordered Ding to pay more than $198,000 in restitution to Google and a $2,500 fine, with a 90-day surrender deadline to begin serving his sentence.
- Despite the judge tossing an economic espionage conviction last month, Assistant U.S. Attorney Casey Boom argued the theft was "calculated," while Fondo indicated Ding will appeal the sentence.
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A San Francisco federal court convicted Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, for stealing confidential information about the company’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and transferring it while developing links with technology companies in China. *** Linwei Ding was sentenced to 12 months less than one day in prison and two years of supervised release. Judge Vince Chhabria ordered to pay more than $198,000 in Google restitution and a $2,…
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