A former Apple executive who sold some of the iPhone maker’s secrets to suppliers will serve a year in prison and repay $4.5 million for his crimes,” The Associated press reports.
“Paul S. Devine was sentenced in San Jose federal court earlier this week, more than three years after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering,” AP reports. “The scheme funneled millions in kickbacks to Devine for passing along confidential information to Apple Inc. suppliers and manufacturers who used the secrets to negotiate more favorable deals.”
AP reports, “Devine was a global supply manager at Apple from 2005 until his 2010 arrest.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Brawndo Drinker” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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Maybe he can get a job with Samsung when he gets out – perfect candidate for CEO.
Perhaps the suppliers guilty of paying off this guy should be listed publicly.
Perfect candidate indeed for head of USA operations! He could never be a CEO of SamSung due to fact only SamSung family members are allowed to rule from Korea. Family first!
But he’s so over-qualified that they might make an exception…
He might be allowed to marry one of the daughters of Samsung overlord boss and honored with a seat at the table.
Great idea! The spawn of that union could supply us with the next Batman movie villain!
I’m sure they’ll give him an offer, not even joking. He still has some level of inside knowledge and obviously is willing to expose them and betray Apple and all of Apple’s employees, customers, partners, developers, and shareholders.
Sounds like he was already working for Samsung….now he can just be recognized instead of covert.
I think Obama has found his new Attorney General.
Obama is much better then any Republican scumbag offering.
Than!
There is a difference between ‘than’ & ‘ then’. It’s even taught in schools in Calimayheeko.
Apple is corrupt….period.
Hey, look guys… We have a new one here… Someone whose life is so pathetic s/he needs to hang out at an Apple specific site so they can spew their rubbish so they can feel like they have a life.
Remember: DON’T FEED THE TROLLS
But they’re so cute! (With their tiny little intellects and all.)
It’s hard not to feed ’em.
I was not thinking his user name was describing his intellect, but a portion of his anatomy a bit farther down. . . which bodes well of the future of the gene pool. We shall not miss Pee Wee’s obviously defective genetic material. Please, none of you bleeding hearts out there. . . Don’t start a conservation program. . . and whatever you do, DON’T institute a breeding program to preserve the troll species!
Pee Wee- unregistered coward
also what the girls call his ‘package’
While I’m with you on the issue of trolls, I have to ask, exactly WHAT difference does it make if a person took a second to register on a site, vs. submitting a comment without registration? Exactly how much more do you know about me (I’ve been registered on this site since before they moved to WordPress), as opposed to that troll that just posted? And how does not registering make him coward? Does that mean I’m courageous and brave…? I have always wondered why people here seem to be so upset about this non-registration thing…
Very good point. I’ve been commenting on here for ages, then tried registering via WordPress, but had to change my username to do so.
It been a pain in the ass, more often than not my posts fail to appear, then after I logged off and tried to log on again it refuses to recognise my details.
It’s far easier to post now without the login.
The fact that in the several years I’ve been posting I’ve only ever used two usernames, my current one, and Rorschach which WordPress wouldn’t accept.
I agree. I’ve been coming here for over a decade. I’ve registered and make comments which ever way works. sometimes logged in, sometimes not. it makes no difference. today I would have to switch to my iPhone from my iPad to sign in (since sign in doesn’t work with my iPad Air combined with the MDN iPad app)… or I could switch to Safari. but fkk it, y’know? I’m a veteran
Paul S. Devine = Eric. “the a$$mole” Schmidt?
Perhaps then, after his fines are all paid up and he services time in jail, he can get a job with IDC making up data that shows that Apple is DOOMED ….
I think he already has received a few choice ‘Analyst’ offer letters sitting in his jail cell.
Shame about this simple thief vulgar guy
Big resume, small brain, and very poor skills…
Keeping out from technology world.