Prosecutors say he stole thousands of computer files in 2010, and took them to China on his personal computer, where he gave presentations about the technology he was working on to universities and conferences linked to the Chinese government.
The interview comes days after Vanity Fair published a piece by Lewis profiling Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman Sachs computer programmer sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing a piece of computer code from the bank.
If one regarded the manifold issues of computerized democracy in a reductionist way, perhaps the principal concern would be whether, in a close election, the Presidency can be stolen by means of computer vote fraud in several major jurisdictions.
The authorities said the motive stemmed from Mr. McLelland's and Mr. Hasse's successful prosecution of Mr. Williams last year on charges of stealing computer equipment from a county building.
It is also a loss for Goldman Sachs, which reported Mr. Aleynikov to federal authorities after it accused him of stealing computer code.
Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer for Goldman, was arrested and accused of stealing computer programs that make rapid, real-time decisions about which stocks to buy and sell.
ALLTHINGSD Former Programmer Demands That Goldman Cover His Legal Fees | A former Goldman Sachs programmer who faces new charges of stealing computer code is demanding that the investment bank cover his mounting legal fees.
He was convicted in federal court of stealing computer code from Goldman, only to have the conviction reversed on appeal, which resulted in his release after spending a year in prison.
Mr. Williams had been a sought-after lawyer, a member of the chamber of commerce and a newly elected justice of the peace when he was accused of stealing the computer monitors from a county building in May 2011.
But corporate law can be counterintuitive, and Goldman Sachs found itself on the wrong side of a court decision that found that the bank's bylaws require it to advance the legal fees of a former employee who has been accused of stealing its computer code.
