A Google engineer has been charged in New York after prosecutors alleged he used confidential search data to make more than £890,000 ($1.2 million) on Polymarket, betting on the grim rise of singer D4vd's name after he was drawn into a murder investigation.
Michele Spagnuolo, 36, is accused of turning internal Google information into a private windfall, with the US Justice Department saying the trades were placed between October and December and exposed in documents unsealed this week.
