A US District Court judge sentenced an Israeli citizen, residing in Arizona, to “time served with three years of supervised release” on Wednesday, after he pled guilty to conspiring to steal a trade secret last month, the US Justice Department confirmed on Thursday.
The Israeli resident of Scottsdale was identified as Guy Galanti, 48, who was charged with conspiring to steal a trade secret on September 10, 2025. Authorities arrested Galanti on September 11, and he has been in custody since, the Justice Department noted.
He worked as a senior-level manager for Scottsdale-based Green Technology Investments (GTI).
The company services semiconductor testing machines and sells remanufactured machines with new GTI-designed functionalities added, the Justice Department said.
Between January and August 2025, Galanti conspired with another, as-yet-unidentified individual to steal GTI’s newly created Glass Detect Design, the announcement adds.
This item allows a semiconductor testing machine to “locate microscopic defects on a semiconductor wafer made of glass instead of silicon material,” the Justice Department said.
His co-conspirator “sought to recreate GTI’s new design as he operated a Taiwanese company that directly competed with GTI,” it added.
Over the course of several months, Galanti “secretly sent photos of GTI’s Glass Detect Design, information, and software, to his co-conspirator in an effort to recreate GTI’s proprietary system,” according to the Justice Department.
The two communicated via an “encrypted messaging system, deleted emails and transaction data from Galanti’s work email, and created fictitious invoices to document the transfer and potential payment of funds to Galanti,” in order to conceal their intentions, the announcement adds.
