( October 25, 2019, 9:34 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on Oct. 9 denied a defendant’s request for a new trial on charges that he stole trade secrets belonging to his former employer and attempted to provide those trade secrets to his former employer’s Chinese competitor in the iron foundry business (United States v. Robert O’Rourke, No. 17-cr-0495, N.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 174962)....