{"id":2947,"date":"2010-08-17T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/08\/17\/apple-global-supply-manager-pleads-not-guilty\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:20:54","slug":"apple-global-supply-manager-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/apple-global-supply-manager-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Global Supply Manager Pleads Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported yesterday, Apple global supply manager, Paul Shin Devine, appeared in court yesterday after being \u201caccused of accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories.\u201d According to an article in today\u2019s Financial Times, Devine pleaded not guilty to the charges, but was returned to jail due to being considered a flight risk.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>While the Financial Times article did not have any quotes from Devine, it did contain a quote from one of the suppliers accused of providing the alleged kickbacks. This quote disturbed me more than a little.<\/p>\n<p>The article cites a statement from the supplier, Cresyn: \u201cAn Apple manager offered to provide us with business consulting to help us advance into the US market. So we signed a normal consulting contract, which was not illegal. We received general information about the US market but did not receive any technology-related information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A supplier hiring its customer\u2019s procurement employee for consulting? Nothing seems wrong with that?<\/p>\n<p>Hogwash.<\/p>\n<p>Procurement people: If you want to get a consulting contract, be a consultant! Quit your job and be a darn consultant!<\/p>\n<p>You can fight all you want and say that there was nothing improper about a consulting relationship you have with a supplier to your company. But is it worth the consequences \u2013 not just losing your job, but ending up in jail \u2013 to make some extra money on the side? Or, if you make multiple times your salary doing \u201cconsulting\u201d like Devine did, is it worth keeping the \u201cday job\u201d and possibly ending up behind bars?<\/p>\n<p>Want to be a consultant? Leave your procurement post and hang out your consulting shingle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported yesterday, Apple global supply manager, Paul Shin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple Global Supply Manager Pleads Not Guilty - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/apple-global-supply-manager-pleads-not-guilty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apple Global Supply Manager Pleads Not Guilty - 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