Alleged Goldman Spy Sergey Aleynikov's Dancing Career, Home Videos (VIDEO)

There have been some strange new developments in the in the case of Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman programmer -- and vice president -- who has been charged with stealing top secret company trading codes and uploading them to a German website. The alleged theft, according to reports, could cost Goldman millions.

The WSJ points us to a homemade film that Aleynikov made, which details how he met his wife.

If it sounds odd, well, it is. At one point, Aleynikov is set up on a date with a man in drag, and appears to pay a matchmaker to find him a woman who, he says, "must be over 21."

Entitled "Love Story," the video's sound has been stripped out, though there are a few title cards describing the action. Dealbreaker suggests that some higher-up intentionally removed the sound on the clip.

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New York Magazine reports that Aleynikov and his wife Elina were also accomplished ballroom dancers. Check out this video, which shows the couple dancing to "Light Up My Life" on a game show. (It's not clear when the video was filmed, or for which show.)

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[pastpartisan]

the whole economy is a scam bult on a house of debt waiting to topple.

any so called 'recovery' is artifical

good articles: http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/link/redir.pxe?www.iamned.com

[VS007]

"The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways," GS lawyer Facciponti said, according to a recording of the hearing made public yesterday.

Goldman Sachs has the code for years and are they implicitly admitting to manipulating the markets for so long and fooling the entire nation?

[Aldon Hynes]

It really seems as if people are focusing on the aspects of him being Russian and on an assertion that there is something special about these 'trade secrets' and the somehow mysterious 'program trading'.

Having worked on Wall Street with programmers like Mr. Aleynikov, I think this is a misguided tempest in a teapot. I've read through the court documents, and some of Mr. Aleynikov's background, and it seems that a much more reasonable understanding is that he was saving his personal files off of the company computer. He may have accidentally included some trade secrets, given the nature of the programming, even that is dubious.

For a detailed exploration of the topic, please read
Is Sergey Aleynikov Really a Russian Spy who stole Trade Secrets that Could Cost Goldman Sachs Millions?
http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/3642

I would love to hear people's thoughts on this after they read my blog post.

Aldon

[grateful4thedead]

most of the financial blogs that I read could care less about the russian aspect.....the focus seems to be on the fact that one of GS' crown jewels is "out there" and it some regards may deem it useless to them. other facets include what items are in the code, i.e. are any of them suspect?

check out the best financial blog... zerohedge

[grateful4thedead]

It's sad to see Goldman playing President Obama like a fiddle.

The good news is that the American public is beginning to see Goldman as the devious force that they are.
Please continue to press this HuffPo and thank you

[HamletsMill]

Wall Street has completely brutalized President Obama so far. It is really unseemly. It makes you want to turn away not to watch such brutal savagery. But i still say he has Chicago game in him. That some how, in some way, we cannot yet foresee he will at some point perceive what is being done to him and he will get mad as hell. In white hot wrath heads will start to roll on Wall Street. Perhaps at one point he will get as angry as Jesus and start overturning tables and throwing the money changers out of the Temple.

"When the government is run for the benefit of corporations, we have fascism."

More accurately since WWII the phrase should be:

"When the government is run for the benefit of corporations and their profits in endless, never ending war, we have fascism."

Why don't the brain dead and soul dead fundamentalist "Christians" in the MIC understand that their Jesus said: "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."

Judgment Day is coming folks. In fact it has come.

[outnow]

What we need is a trust-busting president, not one who helps them create a computerized monopoly on market-manipulation.

When the government is run for the benefit of corporations, we have fascism. A corporate oligarchy is given special privileges by the politicians whom they support with campaign contributions.

Goldman Sacks was the largest single contributor to both John McCain and Barack Obama. Coincidence? Talk about hedging! Hedging their bets on the outcome of the election in 2008.

This is so obscene that the two-party system is to be seen so blatantly doing the bidding of a few Wall Street firms. Just follow the money. No wonder Obama did not stick to his pledge of government funds!

Goldman Sacks and J.P. Morgan Chase call the shots and the politicians are mere puppets of their corporate masters who pull the strings. Unless their are laws against such contributions, the conflict of interest will destroy our government's integrity. Parasites always do destroy the host but not before spreading the disease by replicating their system of fiat money and fractional reserve banking with no Glass-Steagall Act to keep the conflicts down. Letting them gamble with our money is wrong.

[HamletsMill]

Spot on post! Both parties are owned lock, stock, and barrel by Wall street. But nothing is new. This is the entire sorry history of the United States. Google Minnesota Congressman "Charles August Lindbergh". It is all there. The issues we are facing now WERE the issues in 1900. The American people have been living on our knees for 100 years! When will the American people wake up?

[MikeRdg]

Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs computer programmer who was ... is a "Russian immigrant

Dam@ they are good aren't they.

[joncushman]

From Zerohedge----enough said.....

Most interesting in this Bloomberg article is the following statement by Assisitant U.S, Attorney Joseph Facciponti:

“The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways,” Facciponti said.

Is this an admission by Goldman Sachs that there is the possibility of manipulation in the market? Does anyone think that this is the only program in the world that can “manipulate” markets? With all the programmers in the world, we can only imagine how many more manipulative programs are out there. Now here is the best part according to the assistant U.S. Attorney:

The proprietary code lets the firm do “sophisticated, high- speed and high-volume trades on various stock and commodities markets,” prosecutors said in court papers. The trades generate “many millions of dollars” each year.

Markets are a zero sum game - somebody wins and somebody loses. Where do you think these “many millions of dollars” are coming from? They are coming from you - the average retail investor and the large institutional investor. These programs are taking advantage of real order flow and are siphoning off small profits throughout the day that belong in the pockets of the retail investor and the traditional money manager. [TD: highlight mine]

[HamletsMill]

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/sergio-posts-bond-toxic-code-percolates-cyberspace

[plaidsportcoat]

"there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways," Facciponti said."

...as opposed to FAIR ways, right? Like, the way they do when GS comes out on top.

[pastpartisan]

We are borrowing the stimulus money. More stimulus is equivlent to throwing gasoline on the fire. We can't possible pay the debt back... legitemately. The government will use inflation to cheapen the debt. Unfortuneatly, this will hurt the poor, the working class, and the elderly on fixed income. Reckless government spending is not a Liberal value. http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/link/redir.pxe?www.iamned.com

Stimulus is a joke of a concept; it doesn't end up with real economic growth in the long term. Even the New Deal failed to increase private investment. It wasn't until 1941 that domestic private investment reached 1929 levels. The fact that the first stimulus has failed to stop the bleeding yet isn't surprising. Our government deficit for the year which is over 20% of GDP (when the omnibus bill, first stimulus, bailouts, and on-budget deficit are summed) is unsustainable and something's gotta give, whether it be the lenders or the interest rates.

hat tip to http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/link/redir.pxe?www.iamned.com

[MikeRdg]

and bail out money going to banks which money launder ---- like Citi Bank caught time and time again money laundering. Kicked out of Japan

[lechatnoir]

LOL After getting caught with their pants down (see Taibbi article in Rolling Stone) GS is now trying to dump their own market manipulations on some 'lone Russian spy' HAHAHAHAH

Nice try you guys. I wonder how much you had to pay in consulting fees to get this done.

[MikeRdg]

Russia placed their people in wall street and other financial areas long ago.

[HamletsMill]

Exactly. The people running Wall Street have the same clueless Ivy league educations of the men who ran the Vietnam War like McNamara and the people scrambling the air defenses of the United States NOT on 9/11! They have the the same educations as the people that could not connect the dots on any intelligence whatsoever (people learning how to take off 757's and not know how to land them) before 9/11 and then created the hapless under strength war plan of the Iraq War. The rest is history. They are all very easy marks for anyone to target that has any streets smarts on this planet at all. Very, very easy marks. They were very easily set up! Mere child's play. GS = Gelded Suckas. They robbed all of us and now they were robbed. Karma is a b***h. Just unbelievable!

[msjimmied]

As for Goldman's assertion that this program that he allegedly stole can be used to manipulate the market, it brings up the question, what was Goldman doing with the program?

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/guest-post-manipulation.html

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

When Goldman-Sachs does it, it's not illegal.