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A 42-year-old former Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) finance employee was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets from the Cambridge-based cloud-based web optimization technology company. and allegedly selling them over several years to an undercover FBI agent he thought was a representative of Israel.
According to documents filed in the case, Elliot Doxer allegedly reached out to the Boston consulate of an unnamed foreign country with an offer to provide whatever helpful information he could. Filings in the case make it clear the country is Israel.
“I am a Jewish American who lives in Boston. I know you are always looking for information and I am offering the little I may have,” he allegedly wrote in a letter excerpted in an affidavit filed by the FBI agent.
The foreign country’s representatives, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office, cooperated with U.S. authorities instead of taking Doxer up on his offer.
Beginning in the summer of 2006, Doxer provided documents such as contracts, employee lists and employee contact information to the agent.
Doxer, if convicted, could get a 20-year jail term and fine.
As of late Wednesday, Doxer was being held pending a detention hearing. He asked for a court-appointed lawyer but a judge denied the request, finding he could afford to hire an attorney.
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