• Justice: the star employee of Google who faces 330 years in prison after signing for the competition
  • Justice. "Let the machines rule us": this is the sect of the Google employee who can go 330 years to jail

The dark judicial horizon that opened before Anthony Levandowski - the Google star engineer on whom a centennial prison sentence hung after signing for Uber and stealing the trade secrets of the first in the process - seems to have been clarified.

The engineer, who during the opening of the process against him pleaded not guilty, radically changed his strategy last March and went on to acknowledge his guilt in the acts that were imputed to him.

Levandowski was accused of 33 crimes of theft of commercial secrets , and each of these crimes can be punished with a maximum penalty of 10 years of pressure.

However, Levvandowski's guilty plea has a trick: an agreement between the prosecution and his defense attorneys .

Thanks to the agreement, the 33 charges on which he should be tried become a single charge for theft of trade secrets for which he will face a maximum of 27 months in prison, less than 1% of the maximum time that he could have been dropped. of being found guilty during a process against you.

Levandowski's final sentence is in the hands of a judge. However, the agreement reached is extremely favorable to him since, due to the health emergency caused by the Covid-19, it is possible that this confessed thief of trade secrets will never get to set foot in prison.

While the prosecution claims Levandwoski must serve his 27-month sentence in federal prison, pay € 756,000 to Alphabet (Google's parent company), and spend three years of probation, the defense claims a much less severe penalty, it reports. Reuters.

Levandowski's attorneys are seeking a 12-month sentence of house arrest, community service, and a $ 95,000 fine .

"Unfortunately, due to the health crisis, it is not an exaggeration to say that a prison sentence may amount to a death sentence due to the inability of the Federal Department of Prisons to stop the coronavirus," argue Levandowski's attorneys.

The Coronavirus to get rid of jail is an argument that has been used successfully by defense attorneys for high-purchasing-power prisoners (such as former Trump adviser Paul Manafort or the rapper, 6ix9ine) released during the pandemic.

Regardless of the outcome of this process, Levandowski is bankrupt due to the impossibility of paying Google $ 179 million based on the sentence imposed by another court in relation to this case of theft of intellectual property.

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