Apple's revenue: $400 Billion.
Meet Alex Roman. He is part of the 6 most powerful men running the Apple Corporate Empire.
Vice-President of Finance. One of the very few people with access to Tim Cook's personal office. Roman's job is squeezing App developers and ensuring iOS users can never escape the Apple store.
He testified in front of a California court to defend Apple fees.
The judge said he lied under oath. She says he is taking her for a fool.
From the Court decision:
In stark contrast to Apple’s initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option.*
To hide the truth, Apple's Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath.
Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise*
Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283/epic-v-apple-contempt-order.pdf
What did he lie about? What was the larger case about?
It seems that he made claims in court that Apple the company did not knowingly engage in practices that would be considered anti-competitive under the law.
"For a year and a half, Apple has engaged in bad faith, levying a variety of different and new fees to app developers to get around the spirit of the judicial order. It put up scare screens, engaged in sleazy privilege claims, and lied under oath to the judge about its decision-making. Normally these kinds of tactics happen without consequence for important business executives. But this time, the judge accused Apple Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, of having “outright lied under oath,” and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney for a criminal contempt investigation. She also went out of her way to blame Apple CEO Tim Cook directly." - From the article.
Read the article, maybe?
First of all how dare you