The filing says Alfozan is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)(b) with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications. Prosecutors allege that around September 28 he placed a concealed audio-recording device in a USB port behind a television in an executive OpenAI conference room. The memo says the device used encrypted microSD storage.
Prosecutors say Alfozan was arrested on October 9, three days before a planned one-way flight from San Francisco to Riyadh with his wife and son. The filing says OpenAI terminated his employment after the arrest; it lists his final base salary as $385,000 and a $2.2 million profit-participation equity grant. A detention hearing was scheduled for October 19.
The memorandum is the government's argument for pretrial detention, not a judicial finding. It does not establish that the alleged recording occurred, that information was obtained or transferred, or the outcome of the detention hearing or criminal case.