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Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski – The Verge
President Trump has pardoned Anthony Levandowski. The former Google engineer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft.
Levandowski was found guilty of what one judge called the biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen
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One of President Trumps final acts in office is to pardon a former Google engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets. Anthony Levandowski worked for Googles self-driving car division, now called Waymo, before leaving to found Otto, a self-driving truck company that was acquired by Uber. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in August, with judge…
