Ex-Boeing worker pleads not guilty
From Times Wire Services
A former Boeing Co. worker accused of illegally downloading sensitive company documents and leaking them to reporters has pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of computer trespass.
Prosecutors allege that Gerald Lee Eastman, 45, took more than 320,000 pages of confidential documents from the airplane maker, stored them on his home computer and shared some of them with reporters.
Eastman, a quality-control inspector at Boeing for about 18 years before he was fired last year, has described himself as a whistle-blower, saying he copied the files to document what he considered to be inadequate inspection of certain parts.
