"But if you are Ford motor company you are not worried about fake mustangs. It takes too many involved to produce a mustang to have them all in on a fake "
Ford WHAT HAPPENED: According to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Xiang Dong Yu stole 4,000 design documents from Ford Motor Company before heading off to a job with "the China branch of a U.S. company" in December 2006. FALLOUT: Yu was arrested in 2009 upon returning to the U.S, and pled guilty in April 2011 to two counts of theft of trade secrets. He was sentenced to nearly six years in jail and subsequent deportation.
And here's another example a bit closer to home:
University of Wisconsin WHAT HAPPENED: A research assistant named Huajun Zhao was accused in April of having stolen samples of an experimental cancer treatment substance from the office of a professor, apparently with the aim of obtaining research funding in China. He even attempted to delete the professor's original records in order to solidify the impression that he had created the treatment in the first place. FALLOUT: Zhao accepted a deal last week that dropped a more serious economic espionage charge in exchange for a guilty plea to computer fraud, according to local news. He was sentenced to time served, plus two years of supervised release.