https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgz7w7/peter-thiel-got-trump-to-pardon-uber-engineer-sentenced-to-prison > Late on Tuesday night, just hours before he would depart the White House for the final time, President Trump pardoned a raft of dubious characters including Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo engineer and Uber executive who was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of taking Google designs for autonomous vehicle technology to Uber. > In a statement, the White House revealed the pardon was “strongly” supported by a long list of powerful people, including Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, both big names in the tech industry that have long supported Donald Trump and his policies.