Overview
- Peter Williams, identified as the former general manager of L3Harris’s Trenchant unit, is charged in a criminal information filed on October 14.
- The filings say the buyer was in Russia, while the identities of the two victim companies and the nature of the secrets remain undisclosed.
- Williams is not in federal custody, and an arraignment with a possible plea hearing is set for October 29 in Washington, D.C.
- Prosecutors from the DOJ National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control section are pursuing forfeiture of a D.C. residence, luxury items, and funds in bank and cryptocurrency accounts.
- L3Harris and Trenchant are not accused in the complaint, and a separate internal probe at Trenchant into leaked hacking tools earlier this year has no confirmed connection to the case.