Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading Over $1.2M Polymarket Bet on Singer d4vd
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Danielle Chelosky
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Summary
A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading after allegedly using confidential company information to make over $1.2 million on Polymarket by betting that alt-pop singer d4vd (David Anthony Burke) would become Google's most-searched person. The bet was placed following news that a dead body (14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez) was found in d4vd's Tesla, though he was only arrested and charged with murder a month later. The engineer reportedly had advance knowledge of Google search trends data.
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· 3 pulledNBC reports that a Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading after using confidential company information to make over $1.2 million on Polymarket
Last fall, alt-pop singer d4vd made lots of headlines when a dead body later identified as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found in his Tesla
It wasn't until last month that he was arrested and charged with murder, but at the time the story took the internet by storm
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