Uber argued in a recent court filing that former employee
Anthony Levandowski committed fraud, an action that frees the company from any obligation to pay his legal bills, including a judgment ordering the star engineer to pay Google $179 million.
The court filing was first
reported by Bloomberg.
Uber’s fraud claim was part of its response to Levandowski’s motion to compel the ride-hailing company into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee will have to shoulder the cost of the
$179 million judgment against him. The motion to compel arbitration, and now Uber’s response, is part of Levandowski’s bankruptcy proceedings. It’s the latest chapter in
a legal saga that has entangled Uber and Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that is now a business under Alphabet.
