Ex-Google Engineers Charged With Stealing Phone Processor Secrets to Send to Iran

The recent immigrants from Iran face up to 150 years in prison if convicted of 14 criminal charges.
Ex-Google Engineers Charged With Stealing Phone Processor Secrets to Send to Iran
The Google Pixel 7 Pro phone is displayed at its launch in New York on Oct. 6, 2022. Thomas Urbain/AFP via Getty Images
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Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands were charged on Feb. 19 with allegedly conspiring to steal trade secrets related to the company’s Tensor processor used in its Pixel phones.

The defendants—Samaneh Ghandali, 41, her husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi, also known as Mohammad Khosravi, 40, and Soroor Ghandali, 32—made their first court appearances last week in San Jose, California, according to the Justice Department.

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