She was also a legitimate tech executive. The honeypot worked because it was very plausible that she liked him for him. She traveled in his circles, spoke his language, understood his world, and was probably very well informed on every little thing he liked.
This, I think, may have been the worst kind of honeypot, because I think she might have snared him with an actual relationship and feelings.
So, outside the extramarital affair itself, it looks like the main concern for wrongdoing was he vouched for her company, “Megaspeed”, who bought ~5 Billion in Nvidia chips, over the last two years, and likely smuggled some amount of them into China, circumventing trade laws.
The smuggling is still just allegations, but Megaspeed has been under investigation for some time, for smuggling the hardware.
I don’t think any trade secrets per se, have been stolen or given, just favorable treatment for sales.
0x0@lemmy.zip 52 minutes ago
Power does not mean intelligence.
Ego trippin’ is a thing.