Thomas Moyer, säkerhetschef inom Apple, har åtalats för mutbrott som ska bestå i att han skänkt 200 iPad till polisen i Santa Clara County District i utbyte mot vapenlicenser.

Det handlar om händelser under 2019 då Apple och Thomas Moyer ville ha fyra licenser för att bära vapen, ett dolt vapen. I utbyte mot licenserna så ville polisen i Santa Clara County District ha iPad och Moyer skänkte 200 iPad till polisen. Värdet motsvarar runt 70 000 dollar.

The two-year investigation by the District Attorney’s Office revealed that Undersheriff Sung, aided by Captain Jensen in one instance, held up the issuance of CCW licenses, refusing to release them until the applicants gave something of value.

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.

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– He did nothing wrong and has acted with the highest integrity throughout his career. We have no doubt he will be acquitted at trial, säger Moyers advokat och försvarare Ed Swanson, I ett uttalande.