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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24trading.html 

By Alex Berenson
The New York Times
August 23, 2009

Flying home to New Jersey from Chicago after the first two days at his 
new job, Sergey Aleynikov was prepared for the usual inconveniences: a 
bumpy ride, a late arrival.

He was not expecting Special Agent Michael G. McSwain of the F.B.I.

At 9:20 p.m. on July 3, Mr. McSwain arrested Mr. Aleynikov, 39, at 
Newark Liberty Airport, accusing him of stealing software code from 
Goldman Sachs, his old employer. At a bail hearing three days later, a 
federal prosecutor asked that Mr. Aleynikov be held without bond because 
the code could be used to =E2=80=9Cunfairly manipulate=E2=80=9D stock prices.

This case is still in its earliest stages, and some lawyers question 
whether Mr. Aleynikov should be prosecuted criminally, or whether a 
civil suit may be more appropriate. But the charges, along with civil 
cases in Chicago and New York involving other Wall Street firms, offer a 
glimpse into the turbulent world of ultrafast computerized stock 
trading.

Little understood outside the securities industry, the business has 
suddenly become one of the most competitive and controversial on Wall 
Street. At its heart are computer programs that take years to develop 
and are treated as closely guarded secrets.

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