Levandowski, who agreed to plead guilty, countered that 12 months of home confinement and community service is enough.
US prosecutors say Anthony Levandowski should spend 27 months in prison. The autonomous-driving engineer argues that at the height of the coronavirus, that could be a “death sentence.”
Ahead of Levandowski’s sentencing next week, government lawyers told a judge that his punishment for stealing trade secrets from Google as he defected for Uber Technologies Inc. is an important lesson to deter “brazen and shocking” conduct in Silicon Valley.
