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Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits (www.idropnews.com)
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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, why is this dude being charged with bribery when:

Following a two-year investigation, the DA’s office discovered that the two sheriffs were deliberately “refusing to release [the CCW licenses] until the applicants gave something of value.”

Unless I’m missing something, the problem is with these two sheriffs acting illegally. Were they brought up on charges for soliciting a bribe or what?

[–] Fritto@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The grand jury also issued indictments against two county officials, Undersheriff Rick Sung and Sheriff’s Captain James Jensen, alleging that they had actually requested the bribes

The duo from the County Sheriff’s office appeared to be the ones primarily in the District Attorney’s crosshairs, with DA Jeff Rosen stating in a press release at the time that the accused “treated CCW licenses as commodities and found willing buyers” in folks like Apple’s Moyer.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends who brought the charges. Somebody with an ax to grind internally would just bring the charges because they got exposed so I'm taking you down with me.

Somebody external would charge with bribery because they're participating in the scheme.

If you bribe you're not innocent. You might be in an unwinnable position, you might have to do it, but you are facilitating the cycle.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you change the word from bribery to extortion it sounds a lot closer to what happened. People don’t normally wait 2 years to start bribing people for something they should already have gotten.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the problem is with these two sheriffs acting illegally.

When bribery happens, both sides are corrupt, both are guilty.

[–] Ret2libsanity@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Extortion …

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this feels more like extortion than bribery, from what the article said.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Who could have guessed that may-issue permits could be (gasp) abused!

I thought the police would be even and fair in their determination of who should get one, just like they are in all their other activities.

[–] sudo22@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Even after the Bruen v NSPRA decision many counties in California still behave like may issue jurisdictions. Which is both federally illegal and allows room for corruption like this to occur.