Silicon Valley Prosecutor Targets Foreign Corporate Spying

Silicon Valley’s top federal prosecutor said his top priorities include cases of trade-secret theft and economic espionage involving foreign adversaries such as China.

“There is no more important national security issue,” Craig Missakian, the US Attorney for the Northern District of California, said at an event Tuesday night in San Francisco. Missakian’s office oversees criminal prosecutions for the Bay Area, which is home to some of the biggest US technology companies.