The previously reported court-filings made a pretty suggestive case that Uber knew. Otto wasn't founded until after Levandowski met with Travis Kalanick, and t

The previously reported court-filings made a pretty suggestive case that Uber knew. Otto wasn't founded until after Levandowski met with Travis Kalanick, and they reportedly had a verbal agreement to sell the company to Uber before the company was formed. The whole thing seemed like a sham to steal Google's trade secrets while creating plausible deniability. Uber also continued to employ Levandowski long after the lawsuit started, until Judge Alsup pointed out that it's very hard to argue that you had no knowledge of your employee's illegal actions and would not condone such a theft while that employee is on your payroll running the division created by this theft at the same time you're getting sued for the theft.