Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial #conspiracy

Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial on Thursday October 28, @01:06PM

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 28, @01:06PM
from the sealed-in-carbonite dept.
dave562 writes "Goldman Sachs' lawyers have asked the Federal judge to seal the court room during the trial of Sergey Aleynikov. Aleynikov was one of the programmers who developed Goldman's High Frequency Trading (HFT) programs. What does this say about the state of the financial industry? Given the problems HFT seems to have caused over the last few years, shouldn't more light be shined into the dark corners of how it works?"

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/1734231/Prosecutors-Request-Closed-Cou...

File Under: Conspiracy of Silence

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