UK founder, accused of inflating sales and misleading regulators, takes stand and says he wasn’t fully responsible for firm’s decisions
The British entrepreneur Mike Lynch took the stand on Thursday in a San Francisco federal courthouse as a key witness in his own criminal fraud trial, defending his role at Autonomy, the tech firm he co-founded and then sold.
The trial continued as planned Thursday despite the defense team moving for a mistrial over alleged improper questioning of a witness by the prosecution. Lynch’s defense team called the questioning, which indirectly referenced the tech titan’s extradition, “egregious” and “highly improper” in a filing.
About Author
More Stories
Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records
Starwatch: Lyrid meteor showers to grace skies with annual stellar show
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China