Federal prosecutors have charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million by using insider information to bet on Polymarket.
The software engineer allegedly accessed confidential Google data about the most searched people of 2025 before placing bets on the prediction market.
Google said the software engineer has been placed on leave, and a lawyer for the man was not immediately identified on the court docket.
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Federal prosecutors in New York charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million in profits from bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket by using confidential insider information he learned about the most searched people of 2025.
