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Businessman Indicted, Allegedly Stole Employer’s Trade Secrets

Department of Justice
Source: justice.gov

Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A 30-year employee of a McHenry County manufacturing firm allegedly stole proprietary information, trade secrets, from the company while planning to move to China to begin work for a rival firm, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.

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On Sept. 13, 2015, ROBERT O’ROURKE allegedly downloaded electronic data belonging to his employer, a Woodstock-based manufacturer of cast-iron products. At the time, O’Rourke had already accepted a new job…

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