[jonathankoren]

> * "Levandowski was deceiving Google almost from the moment it hired him to work on the Street View maps project back in 2007."

I read this, and immediately wondered why Google didn't immediately fire him? Seriously. When you find out someone is taking your IP and using it for his own profit, you don't put the guy on a sensitive project. I don't care how talented he is, he couldn't be trusted.

[pmorici]

That statement doesn't say anything about when Google became aware of what he was doing. It may well be that Google wasn't aware of the earlier scheming until many years later when they started investigating the bigger issues in this case.

[seangrogg]

I guess you don't need trust when you can use a person as a vehicle (pun shamelessly intended) to sue potential competition.