Trump Pardons Levandowski, Who Stole Trade Secrets From Google
- Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, Michael Ovitz support pardon
- Autonomous car engineer sentenced to 18 months prison in 2020
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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.