AMX’s Goldenberg Arrested, Accused of Spying

March 2008

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A vice president of the home theater and home control provider AMX has been arrested in New Jersey on charges that he unlawfully accessed the e-mail system of a rival company and stole private information.

According to a release announcing the arrest issued by Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli, AMX Vice President David Goldenberg was arrested on Friday and charged with three counts: Unlawful Access of a Computer System, Unlawful Access of Computer Data/Theft of Data, and Conducting an Illegal Wiretap.

Goldenberg is accused of intercepting e-mails meant for the manufacturers’ representative Sapphire Marketing, a rival company; according to the complaint, Sapphire began to suspect that Goldenberg had advance notice of contract bids, as well as other private information. Sapphire approached the authorities with their suspicions, which launched the investigation.

According to the complaint, “the investigation revealed that Mr. Goldenberg had engineered the passwords protecting several of the complainant’s e-mail accounts. For a period of time, Mr. Goldenberg was intercepting and reading e-mails that related to potential contracts. Mr. Goldenberg then established a free e-mail account that he had control over, and created an automatic forward of the victim’s e-mail so that they would be sent to him directly.”

Goldenberg’s arrest was the result of a joint investigation between the Bergen County prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit, and the Paramus (N.J.) Police Department.