Former Apple engineer found guilty of threats to FBI agents

A federal jury has found a 32-year-old former Santa Cruz man guilty of threatening two FBI agents.

The conviction of Brian Broderick on a charge of transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure came down March 8, after a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila.

Before the threat, Broderick, a former Apple software engineer, reached out to the FBI’s San Francisco division several times in 2021 and 2022 and made allegations concerning Apple, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in California’s Northern District.

Then, on June 1, 2022, Broderick emailed two FBI agents and said he was “literally hunting” the “idiot traitor” FBI agent who had previously contacted him. Broderick warned the FBI: “You act on this in … 24 hours, or I go beyond taking your livelihood.”

Read more: San Jose Mercury News