Prosecutors, Former Google Engineer Differ On Sentencing In Trade Secret Suit

Mealey's ( July 30, 2020, 2:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Government prosecutors and a former Google LLC engineer who pleaded guilty to one charge of trade secret theft in connection with his alleged theft of self-driving automobile technology trade secret information from his former employer and misappropriation of the trade secrets in forming a competing company that was later purchased by Uber Technologies Inc. offered differing suggestions for the punishment to be doled out to the defendant in sentencing memoranda filed July 28 in California federal court (United States v. Anthony Scott Levandowski, No. 19-cr-377, N.D. Calif.)....