Woman found guilty of plotting to sell Coke documents to Pepsi

Friday, February 2, 2007

After deliberating for 11 hours a jury found Joya Williams, now former Executive Administrative Assistant for Coca-Cola Inc., guilty of plotting to steal Coke's secrets to sell them to Pepsi Inc.

Williams, 41, took confidential documents and unreleased samples of products to Ibrahim Dimson and Edmund Duhaney in an attempt to sell the items to Pepsi for about US$1.5 million. Dimson and Duhaney also pleaded guilty.

Williams claimed in court that even though she brought the documents and unreleased samples to her home, Dimson and Duhaney went into her home and took them. Duhaney denied the statement and said Williams gave the documents and unreleased samples to them.

In May 2006, Coca-Cola received a letter from the Purchase, New York based company Pepsi stating that a person had offered to sell samples and other confidential information regarding Coke products to Pepsi.

The former secretary could face up to 10 years in prison.

Sources

"Ex-secretary found guilty of stealing Coke secrets" — CNN, February 2, 2007
Karen Jacobs. "Ex-Coke aide found guilty in trade secrets case" — Reuters, February 2, 2007

Share this:

This page is archived, and is no longer publicly editable.

Articles presented on Wikinews reflect the specific time at which they were written and published, and do not attempt to encompass events or knowledge which occur or become known after their publication.

Got a correction? Add the template {{editprotected}} to the talk page along with your corrections, and it will be brought to the attention of the administrators.

Please note that due to our archival policy, we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections.

Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age.

The text of this article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License