{"id":4280,"date":"2026-05-28T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/28\/google-engineer-accused-of-1-2-million-insider-trading-scheme-on-polymarket-using-confidential-search-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:14:53","slug":"google-engineer-accused-of-1-2-million-insider-trading-scheme-on-polymarket-using-confidential-search-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/28\/google-engineer-accused-of-1-2-million-insider-trading-scheme-on-polymarket-using-confidential-search-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Engineer Accused of $1.2 Million Insider Trading Scheme on Polymarket Using Confidential Search Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google information security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, has been charged by federal prosecutors with fraud and insider trading, allegedly making $1.2 million by betting on Polymarket using confidential Google search data.<\/p>\n<p>Spagnuolo is accused of exploiting his access to non-public &#8220;Year in Search&#8221; information to make profitable wagers, including predicting the most searched person on Google in 2025. He faces charges of money laundering, commodities fraud, and wire fraud, and has been placed on leave by Google.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/26\/google-employee-charged-with-insider-trading.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google information security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, has been charged by federal prosecutors with fraud and insider trading, allegedly making $1.2 million by betting on Polymarket using confidential Google search data. Spagnuolo is accused of exploiting his access to non-public &#8220;Year in Search&#8221; information to make profitable wagers, including predicting the most searched person on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.bloomgcdn.cn\/pictures\/originals\/nI57tS2f7Jd0-t.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-united-states"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.bloomgcdn.cn\/pictures\/originals\/nI57tS2f7Jd0-t.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}