Overview
- A federal judge in Phoenix sentenced Guy Galanti to time served and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal a trade secret, a sentence handed down Wednesday that follows his May 26 guilty plea and his arrest in September 2025.
- Galanti worked as a senior manager at Green Technology Investments in Scottsdale and prosecutors say the targeted item, called the Glass Detect Design, lets test machines spot microscopic defects on glass semiconductor wafers rather than silicon.
- Prosecutors allege that between January and August 2025 Galanti secretly sent photos, software and related information to a co-conspirator who operated a competing company in Taiwan in an effort to recreate GTI’s proprietary system.
- Investigators say the pair tried to hide the transfers by using an encrypted messaging platform, deleting emails and transaction records from Galanti’s work account, and creating fictitious invoices to document payments.
- The Justice Department’s case highlights how trade-secret enforcement focuses on access, intent and concealment and could prompt tighter controls at testing firms and more scrutiny of cross-border hires in the semiconductor supply chain.