San Francisco, Jan 20 : Outgoing US President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted a full pardon to former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, who was convicted of stealing trade secrets.
Levandowski worked for Google’s self-driving car unit which is now called Waymo. He later founded a self-driving truck company called Otto that was acquired by Uber.
The engineer was among 73 individuals who were granted pardon by Trump, who also commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals.
“My family and I are grateful for the opportunity to move forward, and thankful to the President and others who supported and advocated on my behalf,” Levandowski said in a tweet on Wednesday.
In August last year, Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets.
US District Judge in San Francisco, William Alsup, said that home confinement would “(give) a green light to every future brilliant engineer to steal trade secrets. Prison time is the answer to that”, according to a report in TechCrunch.
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