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Judge Unexpectedly Imprisons Goldman Programmer

• radicaldreamer 16y ago
  Funny how this guy's up for 8-10 years for stealing GS's high-frequency trading algorithms while the people partially responsible in the derivatives, mortgage, and insurance industries and the credit markets for the biggest financial crisis ever are enjoying their bonuses and bailouts.
• CoachRufus87 16y ago
  "Prosecutors depicted Mr. Aleynikov, a Russian-born immigrant, as a brazen thief..." Pot calling the kettle black.
  • chollida1 16y ago
    How is a government lawyer a "brazen thief"?
    • joezydeco 16y ago
      I think he means Goldman, since the gov't is essentially prosecuting on Goldman's behalf here.
      • chollida1 16y ago
        Fair enough:) It sounded like he was assuming the prosecutor was from Goldman.
    • ecounysis 16y ago
      Probably referring to Goldman rather than the lawyer.
• cheez 16y ago
  "To buttress its argument, the government said that Mr. Aleynikov is going through a divorce and “has an increasingly distant relationship with his older daughter,” visiting “his children only on alternate weekends.”" Why am I not surprised...
• joshes 16y ago
  "Federal prosecutors acknowledged that in the ten weeks since the guilty verdict, Mr. Aleynikov had not violated his bail conditions, which included home detention with electronic monitoring." Preposterous bullying. They are just trying to send a message to their best buddies/cohorts at Goldman Sachs that they are willing to do whatever it takes to appease them. We have seen this type of posturing time and time again.
• cagey 16y ago
  "[federal prosecutors] explained that they were unable to put Mr. Aleynikov on the “no-fly” list..." I wonder why...? Seems like many manage to get on the NFL by accident, and the feds can't manage put a "flight risk" on it? Who can they put on it?