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| Former executive indicted in alleged plot to kill judge |
| By Mercury News |
| Published: 08/02/2004 |
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A former Silicon Valley chief executive was indicted last Tuesday for allegedly plotting to kill a San Francisco, Calif. federal judge at the same time he was serving time in Santa Rita jail for trying to flee the country to evade perjury charges. Amr Mohsen, the founder and former CEO of Sunnyvale-based Aptix, is accused of soliciting a hit man to murder U.S. District Judge William Alsup, whom he blames for his criminal troubles and the loss of his once-promising high-tech company. Alsup had served as judge in a civil suit brought by Aptix against a rival valley firm three years ago, and took the unusual step of triggering a perjury probe by asking prosecutors to review whether Mohsen and Aptix falsified documents and lied in the nasty patent fight. Mohsen's alleged plot to murder a judge, as well as to pay others to threaten witnesses in his pending perjury case, were uncovered when a fellow inmate at the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center tipped off the FBI and agreed to tape-record their conversations in mid-June. Mohsen has been in the East Bay jail since March, when he was arrested with an Egyptian passport and a flight reservation to the Cayman Islands. Federal prosecutors first indicted Mohsen and his brother, Aly, in May 2003 for perjury and obstruction of justice, charges that carried maximum five-year penalties. Now, Amr Mohsen faces decades in prison if convicted of the allegations that he plotted to murder Alsup. |
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