Trump Pardons Levandowski, Who Stole Trade Secrets From Google

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, saving the engineer from more than a year in prison for stealing trade secrets from his former employer Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo.

The pardon was supported by venture capitalist and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, virtual-reality developer Palmer Luckey and former Walt Disney Co. executive Michael Ovitz, among others, according to a statement from the White House on Tuesday.

Anthony Levandowski

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In August, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ordered Levandowski to spend 18 months in prison, concluding one of the highest-profile criminal cases to hit Silicon Valley and ...