Security News > 2020 > November > Apple Security Chief Allegedly Tried to Bribe Police With iPads
Apple's global security director has been charged with bribery for allegedly offering hundreds of iPads to Californian law enforcement officers in exchange for weapons permits for company employees.
Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer promised to give the Santa Clara County sheriff's office 200 iPads, worth about $70,000, in exchange for concealed weapons permits, the county's district attorney alleged in a statement Monday.
An insurance broker was also implicated, as he offered $6,000 in luxury sports seats in exchange for weapons permits, which the district attorney's office said usually cost between $200 and $400. Moyer's $70,000 iPad bribe was meant to be for four concealed weapons permits, the prosecutors' statement said.
The group backtracked on the arrangement "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."
"Apple did offer to donate iPads. And Apple did apply for CCW permits. But those two things are unrelated. There was no quid pro quo," Swanson insisted.