US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released, urged prayers for the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but declined to acknowledge his Democratic successor by name.
Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison.
Washington:
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc s rival unit.
Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in March. He was not in custody but a judge had said he could enter custody once the COVID-19 pandemic subsided.
The White House said Levandowski had paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good. Alphabet Inc s Waymo, a self-driving auto technology unit spun out of Google, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The nuclear football is carried by one of Donald Trump s military aides. [Courtesy AFP via Getty Images]
In the United States, there are a few things that never leave the president’s side and only do so on the day he leaves office after an election loss or the end of his tenure. One of those things is the Nuclear football or just football.
The football is a metal zero Halliburton briefcase carried in a leather bag and weighed 20 kilograms in 2005. According to an article by Business Insider, the briefcase contains equipment that presidents would use to authenticate and command US nuclear forces while away from physical command and control centres.