Despite a last-minute pardon by former President Donald Trump in his criminal case, tech pioneer Anthony Levandowski's legal woes continue after he was forced to file for bankruptcy protection on the same day he was ordered to pay Google $179 million in a contract dispute last year, FreightWaves reported. Uber Technologies, Inc. is now taking issue with the proposed terms of his bankruptcy, claiming he used "legally dubious techniques to shelter his wealth from creditors," according to an Ars Technica article published earlier Thursday. "I continue to view many of the transactions in which Levandowski engaged immediately prior to the filing of this bankruptcy case with an incredibly jaundiced eye," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Hannah Blumenstiel said on a phone conference last week, the news outlet reported. Levandowski filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 4, 2020, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Levandowski's attorney, Neel Chatterjee of Goodwin Proctor LLP, told FreightWaves at the time. He listed $50 million to $100 million in assets, compared with $100 million to $500 million in liabilities, according to the filing. Between 2016 and 2017, Levandowski received $127 million for his work on autonomous vehicle technology at Google. Uber claims in court filings that he "immediately put in motion an elaborate scheme to shield his assets from creditors."
