Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case

Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by User23 on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:59PM (#25194427)

I know an urban county in California where it's an open secret that one can greatly increase one's chance of having a carry permit approved by making the maximum allowed contribution to the sheriff's reelection campaign.

This kind of reminds me of the UC admissions bribery scandal. There are legally approved ways to bribe schools and politicians, so if one is inclined to do so, at least follow them. But in both cases the idiots in question have gone about it in a flagrantly illegal fashion. I am not condoning the practice, but merely recognizing the system as it actually functions.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by hedora on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:43PM (#25195057)

The frustrating thing in the US is that bribing the sherrif or the head of the university is legal, but bribing the low level paper stamper is illegal.

That provides huge incentives for the most corrupt to rise to control the institutions they’re supposedly policing.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by cptnapalm on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:29AM (#25195889)

I work in a library. I've learned though our ethics training that we can't accept cookies from patrons because that might be seen as bribery. There's a strange requirement to accept food: you have to eat it in front of the giver. So we can't take cookies, but the legislator can be fed by lobbyists.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by snowwrestler on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:57AM (#25198422)

I can’t speak to your state laws, but at the federal level, giving certain officials free food would be a felony, unless it was finger food provided at a “widely attended event.”

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by User23 on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:44AM (#25229057)

Which naturally includes junkets to posh resorts.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by infogulch on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:26AM (#25196437)

So just take one cookie and eat it right there.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by creato on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:02AM (#25195430)

I don't think these are the same thing. Donating to the Sherriff's reelection campaign is a lot closer to a bribe than donating to a university, because the Sherriff is benefiting personally a lot more than the head of a university is from a donation to the school.

It would be more analogous if the donations were somehow made to the Sherriff department's budget.

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Re:Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County C... by Godel_unicode on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:13AM (#25195805)

Getting doners is a big part of a university president's "re-election campaign". Everyone has a boss they need to impress.

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