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In an order dated April 20, 2017, New York’s Court of Appeals agreed to hear Sergey Aleynikov’s appeal of his conviction under an arcane New York criminal statute.
Aleynikov is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer, arrested in July 2009 and accused of stealing computer source code from the bank. Originally, a federal jury found him guilty of violating both the National Stolen Property Act and the Economic Espionage Act, but that verdict was overturned by the Second Circuit in April 2012 (after Aleynikov had been incarcerated for over a year).
More recently, Aleynikov also ...
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Although issues involving misappropriation of trade secrets are frequently litigated, they rarely result in criminal charges. However, according to recent stories in The Chicago Tribune, Reuters.com, and other media outlets, a former employee of Goldman Sachs was recently arrested by the FBI for allegedly stealing trade secrets (software code regarding a proprietary trading system) worth millions of dollars.
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