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According to https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/former-google-engineer-ant...

"Instead, Alsup sentenced Lewandowski to 18 months, but delayed his prison time until the pandemic was under control. Levandowski also agreed to pay $756,499.22 in restitution to Waymo and a fine of $95,000."

So he didn't even spend a single minute in prison. Wow

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To be honest I don't know the fine details about the allegations against him and what he already paid. His reputation would definitely never be the same. The fact he didn't spend time in prison might be a good thing. I recall seeing a horrifying doco about a guy in prison who stabbed another inmate like 100 times and killed him. The stabber was already doing life in jail for murder. But his partner who helped him by holding that inmate down is a guy who ended up in prison for a minor fraud of a check or something along those lines. The fact they mix those people in prison is crazy (that was a pretty old case, maybe today things are different).

I doubt this type of crime would land in the same type of prison this type incident you mentioned happens. But I might be wrong. If anybody knows, What chances are for convicted white-collar criminals to end up with violent cellmates of non-white collar crimes?

As someone convicted of a low level white collar crime, who ended up in a prison with many violent criminals and saw people get stabbed, I would have to disagree. This is a totally incorrect speculation. BOP has no oversight and is totally wack. I'm glad he didn't go to prison: he's already suffered the reputation consequences he deserves.

I mean serious criminals are being released from prison in CA due to Covid so I’m not sure he’s getting special treatment in that aspect.

What's not serious about stealing and selling trade secrets, jeopardizing life-saving R&D, blatantly disrespecting the law, and walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars expecting not to be caught?

He declared bankruptcy, hence walked out much poorer than he started. At the end of the day it was IP theft, which for regular people creates more competition and can accelerate the "life-saving R&D".

IP laws exist for a good reason, but it's hard to say that he has done serious damage to society.

He started a church and it is alleged that he funneled a lot of money into it. I think he is doing alright.

Stealing property is not a victimless crime.

This is by design. White collar crime is rarely prosecuted and convicted.

https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime...

In this case though he was prosecuted and convicted.

I know. I'm saying that the friction to conviction is high enough.

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