For the second time in three years, former Goldman Sachs & Co. computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov has escaped conviction for allegedly ripping off Goldman’s propriety high-frequency trading code. His longtime lawyer, Kevin Marino of New Jersey’s Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, reacted to Monday’s decision by lashing out at both the government and Goldman Sachs, claiming that the “appalling” charges against his client were manufactured by prosecutors at the bank’s behest.
“With today’s decision, Sergey Aleynikov has been acquitted of every single crime two sets of prosecutors could conjure in their zeal to do the bidding of Goldman Sachs,” Marino said in a statement. “Now we know that in addition to being too big to fail and too amorphous to jail, Goldman Sachs is powerful enough to provoke two failed criminal prosecutions to settle a private score.”
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