{"id":2640,"date":"2026-06-25T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:33:05","slug":"scottsdale-man-sentenced-for-conspiracy-to-steal-semiconductor-testing-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale man sentenced for conspiracy to steal semiconductor testing trade secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p><b>SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 An Israeli citizen living in Scottsdale has been sentenced in a case involving the theft of a Valley company\u2019s trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2638\">Powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off northern Japan, meteorological agency says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guy Galanti, 48, was sentenced Tuesday to time served and three years of supervised release. Galanti had been charged with conspiring to steal a trade secret on Sept. 10, 2025, and was arrested the following day. He has remained in custody since his arrest and pleaded guilty on May 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors said Galanti worked as a senior-level manager for Green Technology Investments (GTI), a Scottsdale-based company that services semiconductor testing machines and sells remanufactured machines with new functionalities designed by GTI.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, beginning in early January 2025 and continuing through August 2025, Galanti conspired with another individual to steal GTI\u2019s newly created \u201cGlass Detect Design.\u201d The design would allow a semiconductor testing machine to locate microscopic defects on a semiconductor wafer made of glass rather than silicon.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Galanti\u2019s co-conspirator operated a Taiwan-based company that directly competed with GTI and wanted to recreate the new design.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2636\">Are Waymos safer than human drivers? Here\u2019s what company data says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over several months, prosecutors said Galanti secretly sent photos, information and software related to the Glass Detect Design to the other individual in an effort to recreate GTI\u2019s proprietary system. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the pair tried to cover their tracks by communicating over an encrypted messaging platform, deleting emails and transaction data sent from Galanti\u2019s work email, and creating fictitious invoices to document the transfers and potential payments to Galanti.<\/p>\n<p><i>See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <\/i><i>Please click here to report it<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <\/i><i>it to us here<\/i><i> with a brief description.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=2635\">Tucson Now: Arizona water has new superheroes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors said Galanti worked as a senior-level manager for Green Technology Investments (GTI), a Scottsdale-based company that services semiconductor testing machines and sells remanufactured machines with new functionalities designed by GTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scottsdale man sentenced for conspiracy to steal semiconductor testing trade secrets - 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