The Milwaukee Post

By JOSH PERTTUNEN Conley News Service OCONOMOWOC LAKE — Former pro- fessional soccer player Brett Wiesner, 31, had a blood-alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit when he drowned in Oconomowoc Lake during the Fourth of July weekend, according to a toxicology report released by the Waukesha County Medical Examiner's office on Sept. 3. The toxicology tests yielded a blood- alcohol level of 0.27 and trace amounts of oxycodone. No other substances were pres- ent. The former Milwaukee Wave player was reported missing after a boat trip on the lake, where he was the lone member of an eight-member party who didn't return. Wiesner and another person had jumped from their pontoon boat into the water for a swim around 4:20 a.m. on July 5, but only one of the pair sur- faced. Wiesner's body was located the follow- ing afternoon in 43 feet of water. Upon learning of Wiesner's blood alco- hol level, Oconomowoc Lake Police Chief Don Wiemer noted that figure is very high. "People have to be careful when doing activities on the water while drinking," he said. "As a municipality, we want people to have fun on the lake, but controlling their alcohol consumption is something they should consider." In addition to not swimming while intoxicated, Wiemer said people never know what else could happen on the lake while they've been drinking, whether it is falling overboard or a boat capsizing. "They should limit their risks," he said. A former star soccer player for Brookfield East High School, Wiesner played for the Milwaukee Wave from 2006 to 2011. After high school, he attended the University of Washington before playing professionally for the Seattle Sounders and Harrisburg Heat. The last stop of his professional career was with the Wave, where Wiesner was part of the 2010-11 championship team. Most recently, he was helping coach a team in Brookfield while living in Milwaukee. Contact Josh Perttunen jperttunen@conleynet.com September 12, 2014 • Milwaukee County Post • 13 Former Wave player had high blood-alcohol level upon drowning Wiesner Chinese national charged with stealing GE trade secrets By BRIAN HUBER Conley News Service WAUKESHA — A Chinese national liv- ing in Waukesha has been charged in fed- eral court with stealing trade secrets from GE Healthcare. Jun Xie was charged last week with the theft of trade secrets after he allegedly downloaded millions of GE Healthcare files and sent some of them to relatives liv- ing in China. Xie had worked for GE since 2008 as a "pulse sequence diagram applica- tions engineer," writing and creating com- puter codes for GE's magnetic resonance technology for products currently in use and in development. According to the criminal complaint against him, GE learned in June that Xie had downloaded about 2.4 million elec- tronic files including engineering designs, testing data, business and product strate- gy information, and codes for operating GE systems. In an interview with FBI agents in June, Xie said his wife moved to China early last year, about the time he started downloading files from GE's network. He downloaded them to his GE-issued com- puter and other storage devices, sending information to his wife and brother in China on four separate drives, despite signing confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, the complaint said. "Xie stated that he knew some of the documents he downloaded were very important to GE (Healthcare), and that those documents must never be given to anyone," the complaint said. In March, Xie applied to work at a Chinese imaging company, was offered a position, and planned to start working there July 23, the complaint said. Xie said he planned to use the GE information for his personal use once he retur ned to China, but denied intending to supply any GE documents to the Chinese company, which competes with GE in the imaging industry, the complaint said. "Although GE (Healthcare) continues to assess the full scope of Xie's unautho- rized downloading activities, based on the investigation to date, GEHC determined that Xie took proprietary and trade secret information and the disclosure of that information to the public would cause irreparable injury to GEHC," the com- plaint said. In July, GE filed suit in federal court against Xie for computer fraud and steal- ing trade secrets. On Wednesday, the same date the criminal complaint was filed, a permanent injunction was entered against Xie. It bans him from accessing any GE trade secrets or intellectual property and orders him not to destroy or alter any evi- dence. 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