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Deal is the final act in a turnaround for Anthony Levandowski

Anthony Levandowski exits federal court in San Jose, California in August 2019.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Joel Rosenblatt and Mark Bergen

February 15, 2022 at 12:29 AM UTC

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Uber Technologies Inc. is close to paying a final price for its troubled recruitment of a star driverless car engineer away from Google.

The ride-hailing firm, which recruited Anthony Levandowski in 2016 from Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car program, has entered into a global settlement requiring it to pay a “substantial portion” of the $120 million Google clawed back from the engineer, court records show.