Vanity Fair Re-tries Former Goldman Sachs Developer Sergey Aleynikov
2013-08-01T11:17:07-04:00
Shortly after leaving Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) to build a new trading platform for the hedge fund Teza Technologies, Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the FBI and later sentenced to eight years in prison by a prosecution and jury who didn’t understand his supposed crime. Michael Lewis published the first of his two-part investigation into the trial on Vanity Fair today (the second part is due tomorrow), focusing on Sergey Aleynikov’s background and his role at Goldman Sachs.
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