⁍ Self-driving truck entrepreneur Anthony Levandowski on Tuesday received an 18-month prison sentence in the highest-profile trade secrets theft case in Silicon Valley in recent years.

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⁍ Prosecutors said Levandowski deliberately moved over 14,000 sensitive files to his personal computer while working at Google.

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⁍ Levandowski was indicted for stealing 33 documents deemed trade secrets, but pleaded guilty to taking just one document.

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– A former Google engineer was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday for stealing more than 14,000 documents from his former employer that could have helped his new company, Uber. Anthony Levandowski, who worked on Google’s self-driving car project before joining Uber in 2015, was also ordered to pay $1 million in restitution, the Los Angeles Times reports. Prosecutors said Levandowski copied sensitive documents including a weekly project-tracking spreadsheet that could have helped Uber’s rival Lyft develop its own self-driving car project. Levandowski, who pleaded guilty to trade secrets theft, told the court that he was “ashamed and embarrassed” for what he said was a mistake that was “not worth the loss of respect” from friends, family, colleagues, and the public. He said he took the spreadsheet because he was tired of working on Google’s “skyrocketing” time frame and wanted to work on Uber’s own self-driving car project, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Uber said in a statement that it was “pleased” with the sentence and that Levandowski will be banned from working on the company’s self-driving car project for 18 months. (A former Uber engineer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing company documents.)