Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced for Theft of Trading Software

A former Goldman Sachs software developer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing proprietary code used in the firm's high-speed trading platform. Sergey Aleynikov worked at Goldman from 2007 to 2009 and was a programmer responsible for the firm's high-frequency trading software, which has generated more than $500 million in profit for the firm since 1999, prosecutors said. In June of 2009, he transferred

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