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A judge had allowed Anthony Levandowski to serve his 18-month sentence after the coronavirus pandemic.
By
Pranav Dixit
Posted on January 20, 2021 at 2:14 pm ET
Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski is leaving federal court after his August 2019 trial in San Jose, California.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday apologized for Anthony Levandowski, a former engineer and expert in self-driving cars by Google and Uber, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in August 2020 for stealing trade secrets from Google.
Levandowski pioneered self-driving car technology at Google and made millions. He left the company to start Otto, a self-driving truck startup, which he sold to hail giant Uber in 2016 for an estimated $ 680 million. A year later, Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit, sued Uber for taking thousands of Google files, including confidential product designs, with Levandowski before leaving.
The companies eventually settled when Uber shares Waymo worth nearly 250 He offered millions of dollars and agreed not to infringe on the company’s intellectual property.
In August 2019, Levandowski was charged by federal prosecutors with 33 theft and attempted theft. In March last year, Levandowski pleaded guilty to the theft of trade secrets and admitted having downloaded thousands of internal Google documents to his PC. In addition to the 18 month sentence, he was fined $ 95,000 and received a refund of $ 756,500. A judge on the case agreed to let Levandowski out of jail until the coronavirus pandemic ended. « Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to use his talents for the common good, » said the White House in a statement on the last day of Trump’s presidency announcing the pardon along with dozens of others. The White House called him « an American entrepreneur who led Google’s efforts to create self-driving technologies ».
Supporters include Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a longtime Trump supporter, and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who once donated money to a nonprofit for Trump connected to the alt-right. </ A Waymo spokesperson declined to comment on Levandowski's pardon, and Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ref: https://www.buzzfeednews.com
