On August 4, 2020, former Google Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison, fined $95,000, and agreed to pay approximately $756,500 to Waymo in restitution, in the matter of Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
Levandowski was convicted of stealing trade secrets related to self-driving car technology before leaving the Waymo project to launch his own company, Otto, which was later acquired by Uber.
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