NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court on Tuesday reinstated the criminal conviction of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (N:GS) programmer Sergey Aleynikov for stealing computer code from the bank as he prepared to jump to a high-speed trading start-up.
The Appellate Division in Manhattan said the evidence at Aleynikov's second trial "was legally sufficient to establish defendant's guilt of unlawful use of secret scientific material."
A jury had convicted Aleynikov in May 2015, but that verdict was overturned two months later, prompting an appeal by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.
In a statement, Vance said the appeals court correctly recognized that "the theft of intellectual property is indeed a crime prohibited by law in New York State, regardless of the physical means used to spirit the data away from its source."
Kevin Marino, a lawyer for Aleynikov, was not immediately available for comment.