Glax­o­SmithK­line sci­en­tist cops a guilty plea in scheme to sell the phar­ma gi­ant's drug re­search in Chi­na

More than two years af­ter a se­nior Glax­o­SmithK­line sci­en­tist in Philadel­phia was charged with a plot to steal trade se­crets and sell the work in Chi­na, Chi­nese-Amer­i­can chemist Yu Xue has now plead­ed guilty to a sin­gle count against her.

Look­ing at a sen­tence of up to 10 years in prison, Xue told a fed­er­al judge that she didn’t be­lieve that she was do­ing any­thing wrong in email­ing re­search ma­te­r­i­al to her con­fed­er­ates in Chi­na be­cause she didn’t be­lieve she was shar­ing ac­tu­al trade se­crets.

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