A United States judge has found that an Apple senior executive “outright lied” during a case against Epic Games.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers lodged a court filing holding the company in contempt, as well as naming Vice-President of Finance Alex Roman as lying under oath.
“Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies,” Rogers wrote.
Rogers also noted that she has referred the matter to U.S. attorneys to investigate whether to pursue criminal contempt proceedings against Roman and Apple respectively.
The Epic Games trial was decided in 2021 and appealed in 2023, with Apple winning the majority of the counts.
Rogers also accused Apple of withholding documentation of a June 2023 meeting involving CEO Tim Cook about how they would comply with the 2021 court order, claiming that Apple hid the existence of the meeting from the court until this year.
She also said that the company had avoided sharing documents when it was supposed to, and had “a desire to conceal Apple’s real decision-making process, particularly where those decisions involved senior Apple executives."
