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Florida businessman convicted of $1BILLION Medicare fraud spent NYE dancing at his daughters wedding days after Trump commuted his 20-year prison sentence citing his declining health Philip Esformes was among the slew of convicts pardoned by President Trump in the final days of his presidency  Esformes, 51, was convicted on 20 criminal counts in a $1billion Medicare fraud scheme in 2019  The healthcare executive was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only served 4 White House claimed the mo...

Driverless car expert "grateful for the opportunity to move forward" after his 18-month prison sentence is nullified

Pardon for Ex-Google Exec Who Took Self-Driving Car Secrets to Uber A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Wednesday after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining Uber. Trump’s surprise pardon of Anthony Levandowski enables him to avoid serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison that U.S. District Judge William Alsup left no doubt last summer he believed was warranted. “T...

BBC News Electric car battery’s quick charge and other tech news Close BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing information relating to driverless cars, is pardoned by outgoing President Donald Trump An electric car battery which is capable of fully charging in five minutes has been produced in a factory Virgin Orbit puts its first satell...

Anthony Levandowski, a UC Berkeley alumnus, was granted a full pardon by former president Donald Trump for trade secret theft.

A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Jan 20 after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining Uber.

Two Texans serving long prison sentences for drug crimes are among those whose terms Trump commuted James Cruz was convicted in 2001 for his role in a meth-distribution conspiracy; Ferrell Scott was serving life for shipping large amounts of marijuana. Revised to include information about Ferrell Scott, whose sentence was commuted. Among former President Donald Trump’s final actions in the Oval Office was commuting the sentences of two Texans serving long prison sentences on federal drug ch...

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In his final hours of office, Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets from the company before taking up a new role with competitor Uber. Anthony Levandowski, 40, had been sentenced in August 2020 to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to inappropriately downloading trade secrets from Google’s self-driving car operation Waymo, where he was an engineer. The surprise pardon was remarkable for...

UPDATE, 21 January 2021: Anthony Levandowski was issued an 11th-hour pardon overnight by outgoing US President Donald Trump. The ex-Google and Uber engineer – sentenced to an 18-month prison sentence ...