now can we do the same with the apple contractors who devalued trade-ins to save the company money?
Try reading the article before commenting.Sadly, they’ll never see steel bars these days. A slap on the wrist at best.
Having been an employee, I can attest that there were gentlemen who would often come in with a pile of iPhones that wouldn’t power on that were looking to swap them out for new, working devices.
Or let off depending on who their fathers are.
They should get nominated for the Darwin Awards.
Same here. I got so good at spotting fakes by looking at the iPhone typography on the device. Sometimes it was easy to spot and sometimes it was subtle. But on a legit iPhone it’s always perfect.insane. definitely saw a lot of fraud when I worked at an Apple Store. was hard to prove said fraud sometimes, but it was happening both on the sales floor and at the Genius Bar.
20 years is too much. That's a homicide punishment. Not actually fair. The judicial system in the United States is actually crazy. No wonder you guys have the highest incarceration in the world.
No, it's because there are different kinds of fraud.I don’t get the US legal system, could someone clarify.
Why do some frauds lead to prison sentences, such as this one, while other frauds lead to $350 million dollar fines?
Is it that the rich can just pay to stay out of jail whilst the poor can’t?
It's a Genius Bar, not a Juice Bar.Have any juicy stories you can share?
Uh, I sure did Mikey which is exactly why I wrote what I wrote.Try reading the article before commenting.
So in fact the charges that face a max twenty year sentence are not because of the fraud itself. It’s that the parties made the mail system complicit in a crime?No, it's because there are different kinds of fraud.
In this case, the defendants were charged with mail fraud, or using the mail service to commit fraud. That is a federal crime that exists regardless of the financial gain someone may have made from the fraud itself. And there are statutory penalties for committing that crime. Here's the USDOJ press release.
I happened to have googled this yesterday, but there’s already been 38 iterations of the phone if you include SE and max and pro and mini and whatever else.So when they get out they'll have the new iPhone 38!!
20 years is grotesque. They should be fined…no jailUp to 20 years? Damn, that's incredible... And to think that in the US, voluntary manslaughter incarceration is "for a period of no more than 15 years".
Someone could have died and they'd have got a lower maximum sentence. LOL
Ah, the US... gotta love their priorities...
Let's hope they make the iPhone 38 mini by then or most probably the iPhone 38 would be big as the iMac.So when they get out they'll have the new iPhone 38!!
Apparently they did for a couple of years and over 5,000 phones worth about $3,000,000. They didn't drop by a CVS and grab a bunch of feminine products without paying. They had to either themselves, or with their team, send in those 5,000 phones and Apple obviously didn't catch the issue or do anything about it before the 5,000 phones were exchanged.Why did they think they could get away from it?