Former Google Engineer Argues Prison Term Is a ‘Death Sentence’
- Levandowski resists prosecutors’ suggestion of 27 months
- U.S. says he aimed to be ‘singular inventor’ of self-driving
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U.S. prosecutors say Anthony Levandowski should spend 27 months in prison. The autonomous-driving engineer argues that at the height of the coronavirus, that could be a “death sentence.”
Ahead of Levandowski’s sentencing next week, government lawyers told a judge that his punishment for stealing trade secrets from Google as he defected for Uber Technologies Inc. is an important lesson to deter “brazen and shocking” conduct in Silicon Valley.