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Anthony Levandowski Faces New Claims of Stealing
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#42Lesson learned: better vetting of nanny
NO! Lesson learned: Don't be a shady asshole.
Or just pay your employees. Probably way cheaper than having her pissed off.
She is probably a very valuable witness. If some of the stuff she is saying is true. He is going to jail. Probably going to be broke too.
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#43I guess she didn't sign an NDA. Also this guy sounds like the American Psycho guy of Tech.
Supposed she did sign a NDA. How is it going to help him. He can sue, but she isn't rich. Plus if stuff he is doing is illegal I am guessing that trumps a NDA.
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#44"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 BDSM gear is completely irrelevant to anything
Only if we presume that HN's fascination with Waymo vs Uber and the man at the centre of it all serves as something other than a tech world surrogate for lurid celebrity gossip.
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#45Earlier 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.
It might be too late for it at this point. Some of that information is pretty much saying he did some illegal things. A prosecutor could just subpoena her and she has to tell the truth or risk going to jail.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The complaint, "Wong v. Levandowski" is available online.
Well, it's available in the sense that all federal court filings are available at a fee through PACER; it's not linked in the article, nor available anywhere I can readily find other than PACER or pay sites that charge more than PACER for documents plus a monthly fee. If you’d like to provide a link, that would actually contribute a lot to the discussion. Suggesting that it's out there somewhere does not.
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 license plate numbers of those visiting his house, or that he has BDSM gear, I believe I can take as objectively factual.
Would you also say that without access to a rocket ship or the personal ability to do advanced astrological calculations that there is no basis to the statement that the earth is round?
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#47Something is off here. Why is all of this "dirt" coming out in a nanny employment situation? Plus how in the world did she even know what all these conversations meant and why even remember them all?
I do think Lewandowski is guilty but this seems weird.
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#48IANAL 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.
> I’d expect Levandowski has every incentive to settle with her to keep her quiet. It's a little late to do that, keep the info she has already revealed secret, and prevent her from being subpoenaed in the other cases to which it might be relevant.
Not at all. In fact, it's already happened in this same lawsuit - https://www.recode.net/2017/12/15/16782534/alphabet-waymo-ub...
Uber employee writes a letter making all sorts of damaging claims. He then settles for $4.5M. When made to testify, he "walked back some of the allegations in the letter".
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think an issue is that she obviously was listening very closely for a very long time. There are a lot of very detailed conversations with names and specifics that go back awhile. A regular nanny probably wouldn't be listening to phone conversations and committing to memory the names and things said by your employer.
If she was aware of his legal situation and he was the terrible employer she claims, it seems feasible to me.
I'd say it's quite unethical to remain an employee simply to gain leverage for a lawsuit down the road.
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#50"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.
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