Apple's senior corporate counsel has been charged with trading on insider information ahead of company earnings reports, according to a civil action filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a district court in New Jersey. Gene Daniel Levoff, Apple's head of corporate law, used insider information - despite receiving warnings from the company about blackout periods where executives weren't supposed to trade Apple shares - to reap profits and avoid losses equivalent to a total $382,000. Levoff is accused of making at least three insider trades in 2015 and 2016, as well as at least three other earlier insider ... (full story)