POPA ReconGoogle Engineer Charged Over $1.2M Insider Trades on Polymarket
Google Engineer Charged Over $1.2M Insider Trades on Polymarket US prosecutors have charged a Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, with allegedly using confidential internal search data to place trades on Polymarket and earn around $1.2M in profit. According to the DOJ complaint, Spagnuolo accessed non-public “Year in Search” data from Google and used it to predict outcomes in Polymarket markets, including bets on the most-searched people of 2025. He allegedly traded under the alias “AlphaRaccoon” between October and December 2025. Authorities say he made at least 20+ trades linked…
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