🚨 A Google engineer has reportedly been charged after allegedly using confidential internal search trend data to make around $1.2 million on Polymarket.

Apparently, the engineer accessed unreleased Google “Year in Search” data before it became public.
Prosecutors say he used the alias “AlphaRaccoon” to place extremely accurate prediction market bets tied to future search rankings.
The craziest part is that some of these bets had almost no probability assigned to them at the time.
One example involved predicting singer D4vd would become Google’s most-searched person of the year before the public data existed.
Authorities say he made around 16 trades between October and December 2025.
He’s now facing charges including wire fraud, commodities fraud, and money laundering.
The case is blowing up because it’s one of the first major insider trading cases tied directly to blockchain prediction markets.
Google reportedly placed him on leave and said the actions violated company policy.
Polymarket also apparently cooperated with investigators during the case.
Interesting times we are in.