SAN FRANCISCO — Walter Shimoon was one of a select few who get a peek behind the veil Apple Inc. cinches tightly around its products.
His alleged attempt to profit illegally from that privilege caught up with Shimoon last week when the former manager at Apple supplier Flextronics International Ltd. was among three people arrested for supplying inside information to investors.
Shimoon, Mark Anthony Longoria of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Manosha Karunatilaka, who was employed at chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., were charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, prosecutors said.
They are alleged to have sold secrets about Apple Inc., Dell and AMD.
A fourth person arrested, James Fleishman, was an account representative at Mountain View, Calif.-based Primary Global.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
