A Google engineer who stole 14,000 files of trade secrets on self-driving cars before going to work for Uber has been pardoned by President Trump.
Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last August for what a judge called the biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen , although he was not yet in custody.
He was one of 73 people pardoned by Trump on his final day in office, with the White House describing him as a brilliant engineer with talents needed by the country. Mr Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good, the White House said.
The 5 Towns Jewish Times
January 1, 2020
By Toby Klein Greenwald
Media empire chief Jamie Geller is effusive in expressing her gratitude to Larry and Esta Gordon of the 5TJT and to their daughter Malkie Hirsch.
She was already an award-winning TV producer and marketing executive for ten years, which included working for HBO and CNN. But before she became the author of seven bestselling cookbooks and founder and CEO of Kosher Network International (KNi), Jamie Geller wrote a column called “Secrets of the 15-Minute Chef” for the 5TJT. It was 15 years ago and it ran for three years.
“Once I learned how to cook and I was on maternity leave from HBO, my husband said, ‘You should write a cookbook,’ and as I’m writing the book, I really wrote the story of my life. It became an autobiography how I married, made mistakes in the kitchen and I needed recipes, so I wrote those after I wrote the book. That book, the first of seven bestselling cookbooks, was Quick