NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Chinese man illegally took data on military-related technology from his New Jersey company back to his home country and lied to authorities about it upon his return, prosecutors charged Wednesday in the first day of his federal trial.

Nonsense, Sixing Liu’s attorney told jurors during his opening statement. The attorney, James Tunick, characterized Liu as a diligent and conscientious worker who was ill-informed about import-export laws and merely downloaded the information to work on outside the office.

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