14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s chief security officer has been accused of bribing two police officers, offering them iPads in exchange for concealed firearms licenses.
According to Santa Clara authorities, the whole scheme included two police officers, namely Undersheriff Rick Sung, 48, and Captain James Jensen, 43, who themselves asked for bribes in exchange for gun permits.
insurance broker Harpreet Chadha, 49, and Apple’s Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer, 50, are both involved, as they took part in the scheme and offered bribes to the two officers.
The Apple Security Chief could end up in jail
The investigators claim the Apple executives agreed to “donate” no less than 200 iPads with an estimated value of nearly $70,000, while the insurance broker promised $6,000 worth of luxury box seat tickets to a San Jose Sharks hockey game at the SAP Center on Valentine’s Day 2019.
“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. The promised donation of 200 iPads worth close to $70,000 was scuttled at the eleventh hour just after August 2, 2019, when Sung and Moyer learned of the search warrant that the District Attorney’s Office executed at the Sheriff’s Office seizing all its CCW license records,” Santa Clara authorities explain in an official press release.
All defendants will show up in court on January 11, 2021, at the Hall of Justice in San Joe, and if found guilty, they could end up in jail.
Apple hasn’t commented on the report, but Moyer’s attorney told Gizmodo the Apple Security Chief “is innocent of the charges filed against him” and is actually just a collateral victim of a dispute between the Santa Clara County Sheriff and the District Attorney.