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| | MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING TRADE SECRETS (OCTOBER 17, 2002) |
 | | Colm F. Connolly, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that John Berenson Morris of Mt. Kisco, New York, entered a guilty plea to one count of attempting to steal and transmit trade secret information belonging to Brookwood Companies, Inc., a textile company based in New York, New York. |
 | | Morris was prosecuted under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which makes the theft of trade secrets a Federal criminal offense. |
 | | From July 26, 2002, through August 5, 2002, Morris placed a series of phone calls to a man he believed to be a Gore employee, in which Morris offered to sell Brookwood’s trade secrets for $100,000. |
| www.usdoj.gov /criminal/cybercrime/morrisPlea.htm (405 words) |
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