


He is now serving a 25-year prison sentence. Three months later, he followed one of his passengers into her home and sexually assaulted her. The company did not run a background check on him and he was allowed to drive in 2015. Three years after he was released from prison, Chammout wanted to be an Uber driver. The judge in that case ticked off a string of allegations against Chammout at his sentencing: He had been accused of shooting a juvenile in the leg, seeking to smuggle rocket launchers into the Middle East, attacking his wife with a crowbar and plotting to hire a hit man. For anyone looking, it wouldn’t have been too hard to uncover Talal Chammout’s sordid past.Ī simple internet search would have turned up news accounts of his criminal history, such as his assault conviction or the time a federal judge sentenced him to 6½ years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms.
