IT director stole more than 140 Apple laptops from his Redwood City employer


His federal indictment alleged that Halvorsen started stealing and selling MacBooks in 2019, and kept up the scheme until last May. — Bloomberg

Andrew Halvorsen’s job as senior director of information technology at a Redwood City tech company included buying Apple laptops for employees. But according to federal prosecutors, Halvorsen sold at least 141 of the computers for cash, costing the company more than a half-million dollars.

Halvorsen, a 49-year-old Livermore resident, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to transport stolen property out of California.

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