A Google engineer allegedly turned confidential company data into a massive payday after learning that singer D4vd was set to become Google's most-searched person of 2025, according to federal prosecutors.
Authorities claim Michele Spagnuolo used insider access to view highly restricted search trend rankings before they were publicly announced and then placed a series of calculated bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket. Prosecutors say the trades generated more than $1.2 million in profits with what they described as 'near-perfect accuracy.'
