Uber GC’s 10-Word Email Could Lead to Potentially Costly Embarrassment
A supposedly rogue investigation that Uber originally claimed it knew nothing about — and which could turn out to be a costly embarrassment for the ride-hailing giant — began with a 10-word request from the company’s general counsel, reports Matthew Flamm in Crain’s New York Business.
By email in 2015, Uber GC Salle Yoo asked the company’s security chief, “Could we find out a little more about this plaintiff?”
The Uber email, along with some others, eventually led to involvement by global intelligence firm Ergo, court records reveal.
“They were entered in support of a motion for relief brought by Connecticut conservationist Spencer Meyer—the mysterious plaintiff about whom Yoo inquired immediately after Meyer filed an antitrust class-action suit charging Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick with price fixing,” Flamm reports. The plaintiff claims the Ergo investigator used a ruse to snoop on him on his lawyer.
