The California Grand Jury has indicted Apple’s global security chief on charges of trying to bribe Santa Clara County officials to obtain firearms (CCW) licenses, the press release said. Jeff Rosen, a Santa Clara district attorney, claims that Thomas Moyer offered 200 iPads – worth about $ 70,000 – to Captain James Jensen and Deputy Rick Sung in the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office in exchange for four hidden firearms licenses for Apple employees .
The charges came after a two-year investigation. “For the four CCW licenses withheld from Apple employees, Underdersheriff Sung and Cpt. Jensen managed to extract from Thomas Moyer the promise that Apple would donate iPads to the sheriff’s office. , ”Rosen said in a press release. According to Rosen’s office, the iPads were never shipped because Sung and Moyer learned in 2019 that the district attorney was conducting a search warrant for the sheriff’s department’s CCW records.
Moyer’s attorney, Ed Swanson, said in an email The edge his client is innocent in the charges against him, adding that he says Moyer is “incidental damage” in the dispute between the sheriff of Santa Clara and the district law firms. “He did nothing wrong and acted with the highest integrity throughout his career,” Swanson said. – We have no doubt that he will be acquitted at the trial.
Based on Bloomberg News, Moyer has been with Apple for about 15 years and has been head of global security since November 2018. In 2018, he wrote a reminder warning Apple employees of the possible consequences of leaking information to the media, about which he wrote that “you can become part of your personal and professional identity forever. “
Apple did not respond immediately to the request for comments on Monday.
