Société Générale Kerviel's lawyer called for his client to be acquitted. The ruling was announced on October 5, 2010, at 11 am. Jérôme Kerviel was found guilty of the three charges filed against him: breach of trust, fraudulent inputting of data into an IT system and forgery and use of forged documents. He was found to be solely responsible for the record loss suffered by Société Générale in early 2008, and was sentenced to five years in prison, with two of those years suspended, and ordered to pay damages of 4.9 billion euros to the Bank. Jérôme Kerviel immediately launched an appeal
Galactic Trader Galactic Trader Galactic Trader is a multiplayer, text-based, space trading video game for the OpenVMS platform. "Galactic Trader" was created in the early 1980s by Stephan Meier. Meier released five major versions, with the final release being 5.33 on February 6, 1992. "Galactic Trader" is a space-based commodities trading game which shares many ideas with the personal computer game "Elite", such as the hostile Thargoid race, player ranks, and the names and descriptions of some ships and equipment. In the most commonly encountered version, 4.55, the player begins as a trader with 200,150 credits, enough to buy a basic trading