Trial begins in alleged theft of Coca-Cola secrets - CNN.com
Joya Williams, former administrative assistant to Coca-Cola’s global brand director, is accused of stealing stealing new product samples and confidential documents from Coca-Cola and trying to sell them to PepsiCo Inc. The actual charge is for conspiracy, along with two other defendants, Edmund Duhaney and Ibrahim Dimson, were also indicted on the federal conspiracy charge for attempted theft of trade secrets. After Duhaney and Dimson approached Pepsi trying to sell the information, Pepsi called Coca-Cola, the FBI stepped in, and it was all downhill from therea. Duhaney and Dimson served time together in a federal penn; Duhaney five years for a concaine charge, and Dimson less than a year for bank fraud. The prosecution has video of Williams working at her desk at Coke, stuffing documents and samples into her bag, which were later recovered from her home during a search. There are not that many trade secret cases out there, but I promise they won’t all be as easy as this.
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