{"id":238019,"date":"2026-05-30T03:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-charges-google-security-engineer-with-polymarket-insider-trading"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:26:06","slug":"us-charges-google-security-engineer-with-polymarket-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-charges-google-security-engineer-with-polymarket-insider-trading","title":{"rendered":"US charges Google security engineer with Polymarket insider trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-charges-google-security-engineer-with-polymarket-insider-trading.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market.<\/p>\n<p>36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen residing in Switzerland and a Google employee since 2014, appeared on Wednesday in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9237-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filed a separate civil complaint<\/a> the same day, seeking restitution, disgorgement, civil monetary penalties, and trading and registration bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market. 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen residing in Switzerland and a Google employee since 2014, appeared on Wednesday in the Southern District of New York. In parallel, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}