The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer who inspired Michael Lewis’s best-seller “Flash Boys” filed a malicious-prosecution lawsuit against the FBI agents who helped send him to prison for a year before his conviction was reversed.
Sergey Aleynikov, wrongly convicted of stealing the bank’s high-frequency trading code in 2009, claims agents arrested him without probable cause and violated his constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. The FBI did the bidding of Goldman Sachs by arresting him, he said in his complaint in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.