Apple Exec Indicted For Allegedly Trying To Bribe Santa Clara Sheriff’s Officers With iPads.
TOPLINE Apple’s head of global security was indicted by a grand jury Monday for attempting to bribe law enforcement officers with iPads for concealed firearm permits, the highest-profile tech executive so far roped into the widening Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office scandal.
Apple Park's spaceship campus is seen from this drone view in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Getty Images.
KEY FACTS
* A grand jury alleges that Thomas Moyer promised to donate 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office in exchange for four concealed firearm licenses for Apple employees.
* Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen alleges the scheme was orchestrated by Undersheriff Rick Sung and Captain James Jensen, who were also indicted.
* The donation never came to fruition, though, because the district attorney’s office began to investigate in August 2019.
* Moyer’s lawyer Ed Swanson said in a statement to Forbes his client is innocent of the charges filed against him and collateral damage in a dispute between the Santa Clara County sheriff and the district attorney.
* Moyer’s indictment is part of a larger scandal involving alleged bribes that went to Sheriff Laurie Smith’s reelection campaign in 2018, which has seen four other people, though not Smith, indicted this year.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“In the case of four CCW licenses withheld from Apple employees, Undersheriff Sung and Cpt. Jensen managed to extract from Thomas Moyer a promise that Apple would donate iPads to the Sheriff’s Office,” a press release from the Santa Clara District Attorney reads.
FURTHER READING
Read the full indictment
here.
This is a developing story.
Source: Forbes
Website:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachels...h=791616072400
Date: November 23, 2020