Ex-Googlers Charged With Stealing Phone Processor Secrets (1)

Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands were indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to the company’s Tensor processor for Pixel phones.

The three — all Iranian nationals — were charged in a US indictment unsealed Thursday on 14 felony counts of conspiracy and theft of trade secrets and destroying evidence.

Samaneh Ghandali, 41, was a hardware engineer at Google in Silicon Valley and her sister, Soroor Ghandali, 32, was an intern before they both joined another tech firm. Samaneh’s husband, Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40, applied multiple times at Google but was not hired, and worked for a ...