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Apple’s chief security officer has been charged with bribery for allegedly offering to donate a whole bunch of iPads to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office in trade for hid carry weapons permits for Apple staff.
Thomas Moyer, Apple’s head of world security, was indicted final week as half of a two-year investigation into the sheriff’s workplace, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office mentioned Monday. Moyer allegedly agreed to donate 200 iPads value $70,000 to the Sheriff’s Office in trade for 4 permits that had been withheld from Apple staff, the District Attorney’s Office mentioned in a assertion.
The deal was scuttled in August 2019 when Sheriff’s Department officers concerned within the scheme realized of the District Attorney’s investigation into the division’s hid carry licenses, the DA’s workplace mentioned
Also indicted within the scheme had been Santa Clara Undersheriff Rick Sung and Capt. James Jensen, who allegedly requested the bribes, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
Apple is headquartered in Santa Clara County, the center of the Silicon Valley.
Security has turn into a key subject at tech firms lately as they’ve attracted extra of the general public’s consideration, together with threats of violence. In 2018, a suspected feminine shooter opened fireplace on staff at YouTube’s headquarters in close by San Bruno, wounding three employees earlier than taking her personal life.
Earlier this 12 months, Apple was granted a short lived restraining order towards a San Francisco man who allegedly confirmed up at Tim Cook’s home a bottle of champagne and flowers, entered the Apple CEO’s property with out permission and made threatening statements.
Neither Apple nor Moyer did not instantly responded to requests for remark.
Moyer’s lawyer insisted on his innocence of the cost and mentioned he was “collateral damage” in a bitter public dispute the Sheriff’s Department and DA’s workplace.
″He did nothing incorrect and has acted with the very best integrity all through his profession,” Moyer’s lawyer Ed Swanson said in a statement. We have no doubt he will be acquitted at trial.”
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