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Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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There are so many allegations of wrongdoing that have nothing to do with her main complaint (unpaid wages and mistreatment) that I wonder if this is a tactic to get him to settle quickly, in order to get her to shut up.

here is a better question: why the hell did a guy that supposedly made at least 120MM from google alone not pay his nanny's salary?

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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It’s relevant to the question of whether she had enough access to know those other things.

But her claims about his business dealings and his sexual fetishes are both unverified claims, so it's circular reasoning to say one helps prove the other.

What he keeps in his BDSM drawer can be verified directly.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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You're saying there's no basis for these claims. The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible. The whole reason the news media is reporting on this is because they now have access to a public legal filing. Without being a news reporter myself, I must rely on what is reported to me. While I know that the news media will give it their own biased slant, certain things, like her saying that she has the…

> You're saying there's no basis for these claims I'm saying that there is no basis that has been cited for the specific characterizations made in the comment I first responded to upthread, correct. > The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible. Your post in which you made the characterization quoted text from the news article, not the complaint. If you actually have read the complaint and were cha…

Please respond to the point about the earth being round.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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You see crimes being committed and instead of calling the authorities, you continue to collect data (license plate numbers, phone calls, conversations).

It might have only become clear to her at a later point that it's actually criminal rather than just unethical - if she was able to tell from the beginning it is illegal, she would probably be a lawyer or a paralegal, rather than a nanny.

I don't think you copy down the license plates of cars in the driveway just because. In my opinion, she knew exactly what she was doing and what this information could mean to other people. I think this is straight up blackmail.

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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Generally speaking, when you sue someone, it's often in your best interests to give them an opportunity to settle, instead of going to trial. You often do this by listing all the awful shit about the other person that you're going to air at trial. We don't call that a 'Legal way to blackmail,' and neither is this.

> We don't call that a 'Legal way to blackmail,' and neither is this I mean, if we're just going by Wikipedia, my non-lawyerly brain would parse this: > It is coercion involving threats to reveal substantially true [...] information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates, or threats of [...] criminal prosecution. as being precisely what's happening here. Breadcrumbs were thrown out in public wit…

Again, how is this different from a threat to sue? Should out-of-court civil settlements be made illegal? All of them are coercive in nature, and a lawsuit almost always results in a lot of dirty laundry being aired. Does this make every settled lawsuit 'legal blackmail'? If so, does the word even have any meaning?

Re: Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing

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> You're saying there's no basis for these claims I'm saying that there is no basis that has been cited for the specific characterizations made in the comment I first responded to upthread, correct. > The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible. Your post in which you made the characterization quoted text from the news article, not the complaint. If you actually have read the complaint and were cha…

Please respond to the point about the earth being round.

The earth being round and its size is demonstrable without a rocket ship (and was demonstrated a couple millennia before anyone fired a rocket into space.[0])

But, in any case, even ignoring that, the analogy was inapt.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

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