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Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

#21

Blackmail as a lawsuit. Have to be careful who you trust these days.

In blackmail, you keep the damaging information secret while you try to get the target to pay. Publicizing it doesn't work, because the whole point is for the target to pay to keep it secret.

So, unless there is something worse that Levandowski would know she knows that would come out if the allegations in the lawsuit were litigated, this is not likely to be “blackmail as lawsuit”.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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"Wong also claims knowledge of a large swath of Levandowski’s personal and business dealings. She does so in great detail, including dozens of overheard names, the license-plate numbers of cars she observed at a Levandowski property, and an extensive list of the BDSM gear she claims he kept in his bedroom." This sounds a lot like she was spying on him for trade secrets. Also, the BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to…

The only reason to ever publicise stuff like that is to smear someone. Its low and it undermines any legitimate claim. I'm sure a defense would point out the vexacious nature of those publications.

Well, it can be a reason but not the only reason.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

#24
IANAL and all that - but a key issue here is that she was in the room when he was talking to his lawyer. If so, it might be harder for Levandowski to assert that the conversation was protected under attorney-client privilege. This could open the door to a much bigger can of worms. I’d expect Levandowski has every incentive to settle with her to keep her quiet. Smart nanny.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes...it's like the Damore lawsuit...designed for maximal embarrassment with goal of quick settlement.

How is the Damore lawsuit embarrassing to Google? From my perspective it's really only embarrassing for him.

It's not embarrassing in the sense of showing things that are objectively and rationally bad, but it's embarrassing in the sense of showing things that Google would rather not have public (internal social-media posts by individual employees, with names attached, that almost certainly reflect personal views and not the company's marching orders, and are written with the level of casualness you'd expect from social-media posts in a non-public forum). It seems to me that a good part of the the purpose of including that many screenshots in the lawsuit is to make the relevant individual employees uncomfortable.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only reason to ever publicise stuff like that is to smear someone. Its low and it undermines any legitimate claim. I'm sure a defense would point out the vexacious nature of those publications.

It will never reach a courtroom. He will settle long before that. He has too much at stake for her to take the stand and be questioned.

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Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

#27
Throwaway and being intentionally vague for obvious reasons.

I knew Anthony some years ago. It was clear to me from day one that not all was right with his way of interacting with the world.

I suppose his nanny apparently had enough emotional intelligence to pick up on this and enough situational awareness to take notes.

I wish there were a safe way to share this, especially if it turned out to be useful in any way beyond schadenfreude.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

#29
Another instance of a hard working individual who has to deal with this sort of garbage. At what point will the smart people just pack it up and move somewhere else? You are investing decades of your life to something a talentless nobody with lawyer money can undermine in a matter of hours.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

#30
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"Wong also claims knowledge of a large swath of Levandowski’s personal and business dealings. She does so in great detail, including dozens of overheard names, the license-plate numbers of cars she observed at a Levandowski property, and an extensive list of the BDSM gear she claims he kept in his bedroom." This sounds a lot like she was spying on him for trade secrets. Also, the BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to…

> This sounds a lot like she was spying on him for trade secrets. Also, the BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to anything. Without access to the actual complaint, there's little basis for the first sentence and none for the second.

The complaint, "Wong v. Levandowski" is available online.
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