{"id":30902,"date":"2021-01-20T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30902"},"modified":"2021-01-20T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:58:26","slug":"trump-pardons-ex-google-uber-engineer-who-plead-guilty-to-stealing-trade-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30902","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons ex-Google, Uber engineer who plead guilty to stealing trade secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of his final acts in office, former President Trump pardoned ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski, who was sentenced last year to 18 months in prison for stealing self-driving cars-related trade secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Levandowski pled guilty a year after being indicted for 33 counts\u00a0for downloading more than 14,000 engineering, manufacturing and business files from Google in the months before his departure from the company in early 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Levandowski pled guilty to a single criminal count arising from civil litigation,\u201d the White House wrote in a statement announcing the pardon. \u201cNotably, his sentencing judge called him a \u2018brilliant, groundbreaking engineer that our country needs.\u2019 Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of his final acts&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30903,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions\/30903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}