Aleynikov Lawyer Tells Jury Goldman Code Copying Is No Crime
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The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer facing a second trial for stealing the bank’s trading code contends that while copying the data violated bank policy, it wasn’t a crime.
Sergey Aleynikov, who spent almost a year in prison before his federal conviction was thrown out, was later charged by state prosecutors in Manhattan for the same offense. The programmer’s actions should be a civil matter between him and the New York-based bank, defense lawyer Kevin Marino told jurors Wednesday at the start of the state trial.