WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump ontslaat Federal Reserve-bestuurder Lisa Cook. In een brief op zijn platform Truth Social, die is gericht aan Cook, deelt Trump het nieuws. Cook werd in 2022 aangesteld door toenmalig president Joe Biden. Trump beschuldigt haar van hypotheekfraude en had vorige week aangekondigd haar te ontslaan als ze niet uit eigen beweging zou vertrekken.

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie liet vorige week weten mogelijk een onderzoek te willen instellen naar Cook. In zijn brief schrijft Trump dat hij "niet langer vertrouwen heeft in de integriteit" van Cook om haar "mogelijk criminele gedrag". Bill Pulte, hoofd van de Amerikaanse Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) en een trouwe bondgenoot van Trump, liet eerder weten dat Cook bankdocumenten en eigendomsgegevens zou hebben vervalst om gunstigere leningsvoorwaarden te krijgen.

Een ontslag zou Trump een nieuwe kans geven om een positie in het Fed-bestuur in te vullen. De president zet de centrale bank en Fed-voorzitter Jerome Powell al een tijd onder druk om de rente te verlagen.

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Apple has filed a lawsuit against former Apple Watch staffer Dr. Chen Shi, alleging that he "conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers (Oppo)." The company alleges he downloaded 63 sensitive documents, attended technical meetings, and coordinated with Oppo to transfer proprietary information, though Oppo denies wrongdoing. The Verge reports: Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended "dozens" of meetings with technical members on the Apple Watch team to learn about their work and downloaded 63 documents "from a protected Box folder" that he loaded onto a USB drive, according to the lawsuit. Shi allegedly sent a message to Oppo saying that he was working to "collect as much information as possible" before starting his job. And he searched the internet for terms like "how to wipe out macbook" and "Can somebody see if I've opened a file on a shared drive?" from his Apple-issued MacBook before leaving the company.

Shi was formerly a sensor system architect at Apple, and the company says he had "a front row seat to Apple's development of its cutting-edge health sensor technology, including highly confidential roadmaps, design and development documents, and specifications for ECG sensor technology." He now heads up a team working on sensing technology at Oppo -- which Apple says it learned because of "messages he left on his Apple-issued work iPhone." In his resignation letter to Apple, Shi said he was leaving "due to personal and family reasons." Via that iPhone, Apple also says it found messages from Oppo demonstrating that it "encouraged, approved, and agreed to Dr. Shi's plan to collect Apple's proprietary information before leaving Apple."

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