What do you study? img pharma biotech Two minutes later he dispatched Serge to a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center. The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti, argued that Serge Aleynikov should be denied bail, for he was a danger to the community and a flight risk, as he had in his possession computer code which in the wrong hands could be used “to manipulate markets in unfair ways.” (Goldman Sachs presumably used it to manipulate markets in fair ways.) The confession Serge had signed, scarred by phrases crossed-out and re-written by the F.B.I. agent, later would be presented by prosecutors to a jury as the work of a thief who was being cautious, even tricky, with his words. “That’s not what happened,” says Serge. “The document was being crafted by someone with no previous expertise in the matter.”
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