Mealey's ( February 27, 2020, 4:55 PM EST) -- A Chinese national and former associate scientist with a U.S. petroleum company was sentenced on Feb. 27 to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution in connection his alleged theft of more than $1 billion in proprietary and trade secret information from his former employer, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release (United States v. Hongjin Tan, No. 19-cr-9, N.D. Okla.)....