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Former Goldman Programmer Sentenced To 97 Months

Posted by timothy on from the hey-97-is-prime dept.

stevegee58 writes "Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov was sentenced to 97 months in prison for stealing source code used in Goldman's high-frequency trading algorithms. Aleynikov was convicted late last year in Manhattan federal court."

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  1. Re:how much is that in seconds? by zadintuvas · · Score: 3, Informative

    255 085 152 seconds source

  2. GS is a big donor to the right people by unassimilatible · · Score: 4, Informative

    A million dollars buys you a lot.

    Barack Obama (D)
    Top Contributors

    University of California $1,591,395
    Goldman Sachs $994,795
    Harvard University $854,747
    Microsoft Corp $833,617
    Google Inc $803,436
    Citigroup Inc $701,290
    JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
    Time Warner $590,084
    Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
    Stanford University $586,557
    National Amusements Inc $551,683
    UBS AG $543,219
    Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
    Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
    IBM Corp $528,822
    Columbia University $528,302
    Morgan Stanley $514,881
    General Electric $499,130

    http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

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    1. Re:GS is a big donor to the right people by rbayer · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you read the link where these numbers came from (I know, that would be WAY uncool around here), you'll see that "The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families."

      Do you really think the University of California as an institution gave $1.5 million to Obama? Of course not, but add up all the generally left-leaning faculty, staff, grad students, and alumni across all the campuses and that number sounds much more reasonable.