Background

On 30 April 2025, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple “willfully violated” her 2021 injunction in the Epic Games antitrust matter and wrote that Alex Roman, Apple’s Vice-President of Finance, “outright lied under oath” regarding Apple’s new 27% out-of-App-Store commission. The judge referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to consider criminal-contempt or perjury proceedings. (Business Insider)

Resolution criteria

This market resolves to “YES” if by Jan 1 2027 Alex Roman receives any criminal or civil/regulatory penalty related to April 30 2025 perjury finding.

• Criminal penalties include but are not limited to: indictment, criminal-contempt ruling, guilty plea, conviction, or a court-approved deferred-prosecution agreement arising from the allegedly false testimony.

• Civil or regulatory penalties include but are not limited to: a civil-contempt sanction, a personal fine or sanction in a DOJ or SEC action or settlement, or any other personally imposed measure that an authoritative source links directly to the perjury finding.

At least one reputable public source - such as a court docket entry, a major news outlet, or an Apple SEC filing -must clearly document the penalty and its connection to the false testimony.