Apple Veil of Secrecy Pierced by Insider-Trading Suit
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Walter Shimoon was one of a select few who get a peek behind the veil Apple Inc. cinches tightly around its products.
His alleged attempt to profit illegally from that privilege caught up with Shimoon last week, when the former manager at Apple supplier Flextronics International Ltd. was among three people arrested for supplying inside information to investors.