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On Thursday, a former employee at General Motors and her husband were indicted in federal court in Detroit for allegedly conspiring to steal secrets from G.M. relating to hybrid technology. Read the article here. A press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan states that Shannon Du and her husband, Yu Qin conspired to “possess trade secret information of General Motors Company relating to hybrid vehicles, knowing that the information had been stolen, converted, or obtained without authorization.” “The indictment alleges that DU, while employed with GM, provided GM trade secret information relating to hybrid vehicles to her husband, QIN, for his benefit and for the benefit of a company, Millennium Technology International Inc. (MTI), that the defendants owned and operated.”