Former Goldman Sachs Programer Vindicated In Court

Just two months after former Goldman Sachs employee Sergey Aleynikov, 45, faced a Manhattan courtroom, winning an odd split decision, he was vindicated today on the one charge that had stuck. Prosecutors “did not prove former Goldman Sachs employee committed this particular obscure crime” in court Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel Conviser ruled that prosecutors “did not prove he committed this particular obscure crime” despite the fact that Aleynikov “doubtless acted wrongly.” Aleynikov was initially convicted by Federal prosecutors of stealing old computer code in December of 2010, some of it open source, which was part of a patchwork system used by…