Between 2011 and 2019, Racho Jordanov, as President and CEO of JHL Biotech, obtained and possessed confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information from Genentech, and used it to accelerate the timeline for and to reduce the costs of JHL Biotech’s development and production of copies of Genentech products.

As the valley’s tech companies have driven the U.S. economy since the Great Recession, the region remains one of the most unequal.

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