While working as an Apple executive, Paul Devine owned a Porsche Cayenne and held $950,000 across several bank accounts. Only problem: He was getting kickbacks by illegally handing out secrets to Apple suppliers that helped them negotiate better deals with Apple.
Devine, a former Apple global supply manager, was sentenced last week to a year in prison and fined $4.5 million—a far cry from the 20 years he initially faced and the mere $1 million Apple said it hoped to recover when Devine was arrested in 2010.
Perhaps the bribes he received were higher than initially thought, and he's helped authorities convict others in his scheme, 9to5Mac suggests. Indeed, two former directors of Jin Li Mould Manufacturing company were charged last year with bribing Devine; one was charged on 14 counts of giving Devine $387,600 in the US, Macau, Singapore, and China between 2006 and 2009.
DO YOU THINK THIS WAS A FAIR SENTENCE? WHY?
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/12/09/former-apple-manager-going-to-prison-for-selling-secrets/
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I think that it is because he was a traitor to the company and he needs to pay for that without a doubt. Maybe the prison time is a little over the top though.
If he was hurting his company which is huge in this world, than he did deserve it.
He was costing the company quite a bit of money and so he deserved what he got.
yes because he was costing the company money and leaking secrets about the company.
I think that it was a fair sentence because you don't just five out all of the secrets like that, he obviously knew there would be a punishment. It was really wrong of him to do that...
I think it was fair sentence because that is not the right thing to do, you do not give stuff like that out.
Yes because I am sure Apple has a lot of good technology secrets, and what he did was wrong.
I think it was fair and a good amount of time for what he did.
I think it was a fair sentence. It was a big deal, but not a big enough deal to put him prison longer!
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