Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski(cnbc.com)
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Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/anthony-levandowski-pardoned-after-stealing-trade-secrets-from-google.html
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Billionaire Peter Thiel and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey supported Levandowski’s pardon according to the White House. In March, Levandowski declared bankruptcy after a court said he had to pay $179 million to Google, so there is still some sense of justice having being served despite the full pardon on his 18 month sentence.
Indeed I find it important to remember on this day that pardons (and commutations?) only apply to criminal law, not civil law.
This might come back to haunt quite a few other people, e.g. Steve Bannon embezzling from that wall non-profit where donors can still proceed with civil cases to get money back (and punitive damages.) Also if there was any flat-out corruption in dispensing government contracts by the Trump admin, competing companies could probably bring down a well-funded legal hammer of civil suits...
This might come back to haunt quite a few other people, e.g. Steve Bannon embezzling from that wall non-profit where donors can still proceed with civil cases to get money back (and punitive damages.) Also if there was any flat-out corruption in dispensing government contracts by the Trump admin, competing companies could probably bring down a well-funded legal hammer of civil suits...
If all these people are worthy of pardons, doesn’t that mean the justice system is fundamentally flawed?
How can it be that Presidential pardons are correcting miscarriages of justice?
And if these cases deserve reversals of miscarriage of justice, then doesn’t that mean that all over the USA thousands and thousands of other people deserve the same?
How can it be that Presidential pardons are correcting miscarriages of justice?
And if these cases deserve reversals of miscarriage of justice, then doesn’t that mean that all over the USA thousands and thousands of other people deserve the same?
WTF, so this kinda normalises copyright infringement if you are a high profile personality?
presidential pardons shouldn't be a thing after the november vote ...
it should hardly be a thing at all