Cash Crunch Hangs Over Waymo-Uber Engineer’s Criminal Defense

Anthony Levandowski, who has hit the kind of paydays that give Silicon Valley its reputation for jackpot wealth and excess, is figuring out how to pay the lawyers he’s leaning on to keep him out of prison.

Charged with stealing trade secrets from Google before he defected to Uber Technologies Inc., the engineer has denied wrongdoing and is due to tell a federal judge who his lawyers will be. That’s taken longer and proved more complicated than might be expected for a pioneer of autonomous driving who sold startups to Google and later collected a $120 million bonus ...