A Chinese-born software engineer was charged with taking stolen trade secrets from a Chicago-area locomotive builder to China, according to a recently unsealed federal indictment.
Xudong “William” Yao, 57, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from China, was charged with nine counts of theft of trade secrets, according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in northern Illinois in December 2017, and unsealed on July 10.
