Tech titan Mike Lynch testifies at fraud trial that Autonomy was ‘not perfect’

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.