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Published in TZ Latest News 31 March, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Ex-Goldman programmer faces second U.S. trial on code theft charges

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) computer programmer charged with stealing code from the investment bank is scheduled to go on trial on Wednesday, the second time in five years he will be in front of a jury for essentially the same accusations. The trial for Sergey Aleynikov, 45, is scheduled to take place in Manhattan state court over a 2009 episode in which Goldman says he stole the computer code as he prepared to leave for a high-frequency trading startup.

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