{"id":1010355,"date":"2026-05-28T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010355"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:49:05","slug":"us-charges-google-engineer-with-insider-trading-on-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/28\/us-charges-google-engineer-with-insider-trading-on-polymarket\/","title":{"rendered":"US charges Google engineer with insider trading on Polymarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Google software engineer with using insider information to rig bets tied to Google&#8217;s most-searched list on prediction market Polymarket, earning $1.2 million in profits, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen, allegedly used insider information to bet on long-shot candidates like indie pop musician D4vd, who appeared on \u200cGoogle&#8217;s most-searched list \u2060after \u2060he was arrested and accused of murdering a teenage girl, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Google software engineer with using insider information to rig bets tied to Google&#8217;s most-searched list on prediction market Polymarket, earning $1.2 million in profits, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday. Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen, allegedly used insider information to bet on long-shot candidates like indie pop musician D4vd, who appeared on \u200cGoogle&#8217;s most-searched list \u2060after \u2060he was arrested and accused of murdering a teenage girl, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}