According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo has been charged with commodity fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Prosecutors allege that he used non-public internal search data from Google to place bets on markets related to Google's annual search rankings through the Polymarket account "AlphaRaccoon," profiting over $1.2 million in 2025. The DOJ accuses him of possessing insider information unknown to the public at the time of trading and using that information to conduct prediction market transactions.

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YieldCartographer
· 21h ago
Internal risk control is a sham; does Google feel embarrassed about this move?
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DrinkWaterBeforeTheMarket
· 21h ago
AlphaRaccoon this ID is quite something, raccoon really does scavenge through trash to find food.
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NightTideShell
· 22h ago
DOJ takes action, on-chain addresses are no longer private
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InstantNoodle-LevelResearcher
· 22h ago
Decentralized markets encountering centralized judiciary, a classic hedge.
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MetalKeyInsomnia
· 22h ago
Private information betting search rankings, is this considered insider trading or data leakage?
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DaoSidekick
· 22h ago
Internal data arbitrage, the old script of Web3.
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GateUser-b74aba1c
· 22h ago
The regulatory boundaries of the prediction market have become a bit more blurred.
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PerpPessimist
· 22h ago
Google employees bet on Google using Google data, engaging in recursive violations.
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ExitLiquidityBuddy
· 22h ago
Polymarket has turned into a live, on-the-ground event—this is the highlight moment for prediction markets.
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AprWhisperer
· 22h ago
1.2 million dollars lost, is Google's engineer's hourly wage really that low?
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