SAN JOSE, Calif. — A previous supervisor for a Silicon Valley security service that worked for Facebook affirmed at a constable’s civil corruption trial that he and his business’s CEO concurred to provide political contributions in exchange for concealed-weapons allows they required to assistance guard prominent customers.
Martin Nielsen, who linked a Santa Clara County constable’s captain and others in the declared bribery plan, affirmed openly for the veryfirst time Monday at Sheriff Laurie Smith’s trial.
He comprehensive how he was charged with finding a method to get concealed-carry allows for AS Solutions security representatives who were designated to prominent customers, the Mercury News reported. The effort followed a 2018 shooting at the YouTube school in San Bruno in which a lady injured 3 individuals priorto killing herself.
The now-defunct security business’s prominent customers consistedof Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Nielsen affirmed that he and AS Solution’s then-head Christian West concurred to economically assistance Smith’s 2018 reelection quote in exchange for the allows for security representatives appointed to secure executives for the business then understood as Facebook.
The uncommon case versus Smith is a civil procedure to lookfor elimination of an chosen authorities. S