Ex-biotech executives sentenced for Genentech trade theft

ABC 10 ^ | 3/15/2022 | AP

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SAN FRANCISCO — Two co-founders of a Taiwan biotechnology company were sentenced Tuesday for plotting to steal trade secrets from Genentech in a $101 million scheme, prosecutors said. Racho Jordanov, former CEO of JHL Biotech Inc., and former chief operating officer Rose Lin were sentenced in San Francisco federal court to a year and a day each in federal prison, the U.S. attorney's office said.

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Our justice system at times doesn’t seem very just.

These 2 got 1 year sentences for stealing secrets from US firms and sending to Taiwanese firms (although Chinese business was also mentioned) worth $101,000,000.

Yet in the lives of average Americans these can possibly put you away for a year: Slapping an old person Having a bong near a school smoking a joint near a school Driving with an expired license Driving drunk Driving a boat with a suspended license Driving too fast in a work zone (in certain states)

Best of all…Simple Theft (steal a toaster out of someone’s house)

Other simple crimes have even worse punishments (ex 10 years for transporting an assault rifle across some state lines—not even using it in a crime just moving it)

Wish we had equal justice regardless of a persons racial, social status or political position.