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Today, James H. DeAtley, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, announced that Mayra Justine Trujillo-Cohen (46) pled guilty to a Superseding Criminal Information charging her with theft of trade secrets, a violation of 18 United States Code, Section 1832 and one count of wire fraud, a violation of 18 United States Code, Section 1343.
Trujillo-Cohen pled guilty to taking a proprietary SAP Implementation Methodology, considered to be intellectual property, from her employer, ICS, Deloitte & Touche, and then attempting to convey that methodology as her own creation for personal financial gain, after she had been terminated from ICS, Deloitte & Touche.
Theft of trade secrets is a violation of 18 United States Code, Section 1832, which is commonly referred to as the Economic Espionage Act. The Act was passed by Congress in late 1996 to protect private property rights in trade secrets. This is the first case of the type to be brought in the Southern District of Texas.
Trujillo-Cohen also pled guilty to wire fraud. She admitted to developing a scheme wherein she was able to use an insurance company’s bank account to pay her American Express credit card bill through wire transfers. Over a period of several months, Trujillo-Cohen transferred approximately $436,000.00 from the insurance company’s bank account to her American Express account, which she used to purchase such big ticket items as a Rover Sport Utility Vehicle, furniture, and jewelry, including several Rolex watches.
Sentencing has been set for October 26, 1998. Trujillo-Cohen could be sentenced up to 15 years incarceration and ordered to pay a maximum $500,000.00 fine and restitution.###
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