A former GE engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets about its electricity-generating turbines for the Chinese government while working at the manufacturer’s troubled power division.
Xiaoqing Zheng, 56, of Niskayuna, N.Y., faces six counts of economic espionage and five counts of trade-secrets theft in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Albany, N.Y.
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