{"id":97589,"date":"2026-05-28T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=97589"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:40:08","slug":"google-employee-accused-of-insider-betting-on-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/google-employee-accused-of-insider-betting-on-polymarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Employee Accused of Insider Betting on Polymarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have accused Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo of using confidential corporate information to place 25 bets on Polymarket, amounting to $2.7 million. According to the Department of Justice and the CFTC, the account AlphaRaccoon earned approximately $1.2 million. The charges include commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US authorities have accused Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo of using confidential corporate information to place 25 bets on Polymarket, amounting to $2.7 million. According to the Department of Justice and the CFTC, the account AlphaRaccoon earned approximately $1.2 million. The charges include commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Google engineer accused of insider betting using confidential information.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oneliners"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"1","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Google engineer accused of insider betting using confidential information.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97591,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97589\/revisions\/97591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}