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Uber to Levandowski: We won’t pay your $179 million debt to Google – Source CNET Tech

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Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski leaves a San Francisco courthouse after being indicted on 33 criminal counts related to alleged theft of trade secrets related to self-driving cars.


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Uber said it won’t be throwing a lifeline to the former head of its self-driving car program. When the company hired Anthony Levandowski in 2016, it agreed to pay for the star engineer’s legal fees in claims that came up against him. But, in a court filing last week, Uber said it refused to pay his $179 million debt to Google.

Levandowski “fraudulently” concealed “the fact that he…

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