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Fred Onyango

Google engineer arrested after allegedly using internal search data to win $1.2 million bet on singer D4vd

The accused murderer D4VD has not left the headlines for almost a year. The rapper was allegedly responsible for the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, but while the case was still ongoing, federal prosecutors believe that a Google employee was using insider information to place bets on him through Polymarket.

TMZ reports that an Italian Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, is being accused of using his access to confidential company data to track user searches so he could place Google-related bets on Polymarket. Spagnuolo’s alleged wagers included betting “yes” on whether the suspected murderer would appear in Google’s “Top 5 Most Searched People of 2025.”

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