Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of breaching election data. Those charges were dropped weeks later.
The district attorney's office has settled a lawsuit filed by a small Michigan tech firm over a 2022 prosecution that was largely based on the word of conspiracy theorists who questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Los Angeles County will pay the owner of Michigan-based election management software company $5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the LA County District.
Los Angeles County will pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was briefly accused of stealing data on county poll workers in a case he said was pushed by conspiracy theorists. KNBC-TV says the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Eugene Yu of Michigan-based Konnech Corp. over his 2022 arrest and prosecution for conspiracy and embezzlement. Konnech had a contract with the county to provide some software used to manage election workers. The county DA's office accused Yu of violating it by storing data on hundreds of poll workers on servers in China. The case was dropped about a month later. Yu's lawsuit alleged it was based on conspiracy theories that falsely linked his company to the Chinese government.
Eugene Yu and his tiny Michigan software company Konnech Corp were the focus of a bungled 2022 prosecution based largely on the word of conspiracy theorists.