The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) programmer twice charged with stealing the company’s high-speed trading code on his last day of work scored a pre-trial victory as a New York judge ruled his arrest was illegal and threw out some of the evidence against him.
Sergey Aleynikov, 44, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Russia, whose case was the inspiration for Michael Lewis’s best-seller “Flash Boys,” is fighting charges in state court after his federal conviction was overturned.
Physical evidence seized after Aleynikov’s arrest, including computer hardware containing the allegedly stolen code, can’t be used at his trial, New York State Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel in Manhattan ruled yesterday. He also barred prosecutors from using Aleynikov’s statements to FBI agents after his July 3, 2009, arrest at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
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