Anthony Levandowski, who helped steer Google's Waymo self-driving-car project before landing at Uber, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
A former Google engineer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading to guilty to stealing trade secrets before joining Uber’s effort to build robotic vehicles for its ride-hailing service.
Alsup had taken the unusual step of recommending the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into Levandowski while presiding over a high-profile, a spinoff from a self-driving-car project that Google began in 2007 after hiring Levandowski to be part of its team. The accusations turned Levandowski, once highly regarded for his early inroads into self-driving cars, into a notorious figure “almost synonymous with greed run amok in Silicon Valley,” his own lawyers acknowledged in court documents filed last week.
Uber settled its case with Waymo for $245 million a few days into a trial that featured Uber’s former CEO, Travis Kalanick, speaking about some of his discussions with Levandowski about the ride-hailing service’s desire to win the race to build self-driving cars.Levandowski, 40, faced a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a $250,000 fine.
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