Evil Google Accused of Racketeering, Again!

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Famed architect “squeezed” out of  “game-changing new technology” by Google’s deplorable founders

“In an explosive new allegation, a renowned architect has accused Google [Alphabet Inc] of racketeering, saying in a lawsuit the company has a pattern of stealing trade secrets from people it first invites to collaborate,” a report said.

Architect Eli Attia spent 50 years developing what his lawsuit calls “game-changing new technology” for building construction. Google in 2010 struck a deal to work with him on commercializing it as software, and Attia moved with his family from New York to Palo Alto to focus on the initiative, code-named “Project Genie.”

Google’s secretive “Google X” unit was selected  for experimental “moonshots.”

But then Google and its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin “plotted to squeeze Attia out of the project” and pretended to kill it but used Attia’s technology to “surreptitiously” spin off Project Genie into a new company, according to the lawsuit.

“The real adding-insult-to-injury was Google telling him the project had been canceled and they weren’t going forward with it when in fact they were going full blast on it,” Attia’s lawyer Eric Buether said in an interview Friday.

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