Chi Mak, 66, a U.S. citizen since 1985, is accused of conspiracy to export U.S. defense secrets to China, possession of property in aid of a foreign government and failure to register as a foreign agent. He could get more than 50 years in prison if convicted.
A jury of eight women and four men, as well as four alternates, was selected March 27 after the judge and attorney's quizzed prospective jurors.
Mak was an engineer at Power Paragon, an Anaheim-based subsidiary of L-3 Communications, the nation's sixth-largest defense company. (Source: International Herald Tribune, Mar 28, 2007).