10-year term for trying to bring military secrets to China

April 21, 2008 

SANTA ANA, Calif. - The younger brother of an imprisoned Chinese-American engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in a family conspiracy to export defense technology to China.

U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney sentenced Tai Mak (Tie Mak) on Monday in California. His 67-year-old brother Chi Mak (Chee Mak) was sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison last month.

Tai Mak and his wife were arrested by FBI agents at Los Angeles International Airport in 2005 as they were heading to China with encrypted CDs that contained sensitive documents on U.S. naval technologies.

Prosecutors say Chi Mak stole the information from the Anaheim-based defense contractor where he worked.

Lee ADDS: Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as Al Gore should be joining Chi Mak for their own acts of selling America ‘down the road.’