Google engineer charged with insider trading on Polymarket after alleged $1.2M profit
A Google engineer has been charged with insider trading after allegedly profiting $1.2 million on Polymarket. Michele Spagnuolo is accused of using confidential internal search data to place bets on Google's Year in Search results. He faces multiple charges, including commodities fraud and money laundering, and was released on a $2.25 million bond.
- ▪Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Google cybersecurity engineer, was charged with insider trading.
- ▪He allegedly used nonpublic search trend data to predict the outcome of Google's Year in Search 2025.
- ▪Spagnuolo's Polymarket account was registered under the pseudonym AlphaRaccoon.
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- ▪ Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term — CNBC — Investing
- ▪ Google Engineer Charged with Insider Trading on Polymarket — Bloomberg.com
- ▪ Google engineer insider-traded search results on Polymarket, Feds allege — CoinDesk
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