He was convicted of exporting military information, possessing stolen trade secrets, and lying to the authorities.

BBC: US jails Chinese engineer for exporting trade secrets

Kameo was exporting that information over the Internet, giving hackers credit-card numbers, customer names and other details.

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The Energy Information Agency earlier this year estimated that exporting gas would raise the price of the commodity domestically.

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