Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months in prison for stealing files

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A federal judge sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from Google related to self-driving cars months before becoming the head of Uber's rival unit.

"Billions [of dollars] in the future were at play, and when those kind of financial incentives are there good people will do terrible things, and that's what happened here," Alsup said.Levandowski requested one-year confinement at his Marin County home, contending that bouts with pneumonia in recent years would make him susceptible to death from the novel coronavirus while in prison.

Uber fired Levandowski in 2017 and then settled a lawsuit from Google parent Alphabet over the misuse of trade secrets, setting back the ride-hailing company's self-driving project. Google last week asked the bankruptcy judge to reject Uber's argument that it is not responsible for paying the $179 million under his old employment agreement.

 

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deray Wow

Ok. I would have given him 15 years. Corrupt. Criminals need to contemplate their crimes.

Get it how you live

lol all is fair

Uber y’all almost got played with

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