Manhattan United States Attorney Preet Bharara is claiming in a just-released criminal complaint that, after learning of a federal investigation, a former employee of SAC Capital tore apart his computer drives with pliers and walked around New York City tossing the remains in four separate garbage trucks, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.

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Earlier that day, the back tires of a city garbage truck broke through the street and got stuck in the pavement.

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While one city may be interested in installing videos to catch illegal garbage dumpers, another will cringe at the notion of filming citizens without their knowledge.

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Walking with the illustrator Maira Kalman let me see the elegance in a couch placed incongruously among garbage bags and highlighted the kinds of personal, private and public spaces we navigate in the city.

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