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Apparently also suitable as a bribe: iPad in an Apple store
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The security chief of the US technology company Apple has been charged with bribery charges.
Thomas Moyer is said to have tried to obtain weapons licenses for four Apple employees with 200 tablet computers, as announced by the public prosecutor for the California district of Santa Clara.
In the case, two police officers were charged in addition to Moyer.
In the indictment, Moyer is accused of bribery and the two officers of bribery.
A trial date has been set for January 11th.
The two police officers urged Moyer to promise to donate 200 iPads worth nearly $ 70,000 to the sheriff's office, prosecutors said.
In return, they wanted to issue withheld licenses for four Apple employees to conceal firearms.
The deal was called off at the last minute in August 2019 after Moyer and one of the police officers learned of a search warrant for the sheriff's office, according to the prosecution.
Moyer's attorney denied the allegations against his client.
"Tom Moyer is innocent." Apple offered to donate iPads and Apple applied for weapons licenses.
"But these two things are not related." It was not a barter.
Rather, Moyer had become "collateral damage" in a "long, bitter and very public dispute" between the Santa Clara Sheriff and the District Attorney.
One of the police officers and an insurance broker were also charged on separate charges.
It should also have been about a gun license - and about $ 6,000 VIP tickets for an ice hockey game.
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