Joya Williams Trial

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Former worker of Coca-Cola, Joya Williams, along with her partners in crime Ibrahim
Dimson and Edmund Duhaney were caught violating the act of misappropriation of trade secret.
The incident started when PepsiCo, along with many other companies received an anonymous letter from a person named Dirk, offering them Coca-Cola’s trade secret to the highest bidder.
The bid of the offer was up to at least $1.5 millions. Sequentially, PepsiCo informed Coco-Cola of the crime ongoing and both companies underwent investigation with the help of the FBI. They went undercover as the executive of of PepsiCo and setup a meeting with the seller. The seller initially offered the undercover agent a sample of the recipe in exchange for $30,000 and along with the …show more content…

The case was held at the Federal District County with Judge J. Owen Forrester in charge of the trial. Both Dimson and Duhaney pleaded guilty to the scheme. Former secretary,
Williams, insisted that she was innocent and had no involvement in this criminal act.
Surveillance cameras at her work office proved otherwise. The footage showed that Williams was putting several documents in her bags and had the sample of the Coca-Cola’s trade secret in her hand. With hard evidence on the case against her, she later pleaded guilty and admitted that she did had some involvement in the act but didn’t acknowledge that the act was immoral.
The court ruled Williams along with Dimson and Duhaney charged with the act of fraud and unlawfully stealing and selling trade secret of Coca-Cola. Co-defendants Dimson was sentenced to five years and Duhaney’s sentence was to be decided at a later time. Willams, on the other hand will serve eight years in prison. The sentence is longer than the usual punishment of the same crime due to her dishonesty.
I support the ruling of the court on this case. I believe the act of stealing company trade secret and selling it to rival companies is ethically immoral and should be punish for the

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