Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison, as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed – By Kirsten Korosec, Mark Harris (Techcrunch) / August 4 2020
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Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secrets.
Judge Alsup said that home confinement would “[give] a green light to every future brilliant engineer to steal trade secrets. Prison time is the answer to that.”
During court proceedings today, Levandowski also agreed to pay $756,499.22 in restitution to Waymo and a fine of $95,000.
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