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
Sébastien Rale view and does not refute the specifics of Rale's life and incendiary actions. Sébastien Rale Sébastien Rale (also Racle, Râle, Rasle, Rasles and Sebastian Rale (January 20, 1657 – August 23, 1724)) was a Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who worked among the eastern Abenaki people. He was stationed on the border of Acadia and New England, and encouraged Indian raids upon the Colonial settlements in Maine. He fought throughout King William's War and Queen Anne's War, and was eventually killed by the Colonists during Father Rale's War. Rale was born in Pontarlier, France and studied in Dijon. In 1675, he