Levandowski (left) and his lawyers leaving the the Robert F. Peckham US Federal Court on Sept 04, 2019 in San Jose, California. Despite Ehrlich serving as Levandowski’s lawyer during Waymo’s civil case, experts said he and partner Ismail Ramsey have good reason to be concerned about the engineer’s liquidity. — AFP
Anthony Levandowski, who has hit the kind of paydays that give Silicon Valley its reputation for jackpot wealth and excess, is figuring out how to pay the lawyers he’s leaning on to keep him out of prison.
Charged with stealing trade secrets from Google before he defected to Uber Technologies Inc, the engineer has denied wrongdoing and is due to tell a US federal judge who his lawyers will be. That’s taken longer and proved more complicated than might be expected for a pioneer of autonomous driving who sold startups to Google and later collected a US$120mil (RM503.14mil) bonus from the Alphabet Inc unit before he quit.
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