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Vance is truly a scumbag (I hope there's an exception to HN's name-calling rules relating to people like him). You mention Aleynikov. Here's what Vance is doin
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Vance is truly a scumbag (I hope there's an exception to HN's name-calling rules relating to people like him).
You mention Aleynikov. Here's what Vance is doing[1]:
An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer who
twice won reversal of guilty verdicts for taking
the firm’s high-frequency trading code when he
left for another job isn’t yet in the clear as
prosecutors press an appeal.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will
challenge the dismissal of charges against Sergey
Aleynikov, whose saga helped inspire Michael
Lewis’s “Flash Boys,” Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman
for prosecutors, said Monday.
Whatever anyone's opinion on the original merits of that case, the sheer vindictiveness of the prosecutor is appalling. A more likely explanation is that he's in thrall to Goldman Sachs.
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/aleynikov-prosecutor-will-appeal-dismissal-of-state-charges http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-27/aleynikov-...