Apple’s efforts to thoroughly deny this week’s bombshell Bloomberg Businessweek report now extend to a former top executive.
Apple’s recently retired general counsel Bruce Sewell told Reuters he called the FBI’s then-general counsel James Baker last year after being told by Bloomberg of an open investigation into Supermicro, and was told that nobody at the federal law enforcement agency knew what the story was about.
“I got on the phone with him personally and said, ‘Do you know anything about this?,” Sewell said of his conversation with Baker, reports Reuters. “He said, ‘I’ve never heard of this, but give me 24 hours to make sure.’ He called me back 24 hours later and said ‘Nobody here knows what this story is about.'”
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