Well he appeared to take files from Google / Waymo's repo on the same day as he met with Uber about selling Otto (before Otto even existed). More importantly,

Well he appeared to take files from Google / Waymo's repo on the same day as he met with Uber about selling Otto (before Otto even existed). More importantly, Uber very explicitly paid (and handsomely so) for Levandowski's capacity (and a few others) to create lidar-- Uber allotted 20% of Otto golden handcuffs to building a lidar. https://sc.cnbcfm.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2018/02/05/Waymo%20Opening%20Slides%20Redacted.pdf https://sc.cnbcfm.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editor... If he didn't actually deliver / use Google's files at Uber (I believe they actually may have found he didn't?), he was clearly trying to get the tech in his head and build a crib sheet for what was to come later. In any case, today he paid $2m in bail and is wearing an ankle bracelet GPS monitor.