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Google engineer made $1.2M by placing bets on Polymarket using confidential info, prosecutors allege Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of…

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What happened

Google engineer made $1.2M by placing bets on Polymarket using confidential info, prosecutors allege Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of…

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Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of the year in 2025, according to prosecutors.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of the year in 2025, according to prosecutors.”
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Three separate web search results confirm the identity of the individual (Michele Spagnuolo/Spagnulo), his nationality (Italian), residence (Switzerland), and the specific nature of the bet regarding singer D4vd being the most-searched person of 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of the year in 2025, according to prosecutors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-engineer-polymar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Michele Spagnuolo allegedly used confidential Google search data to place bets with near-perfect accuracy on the platform's Year in Search contracts.
https://qz.com/google-engineer-insider-trading-polymarket-ye…
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web search NEUTRAL — Specifically, prosecutors say he bet that Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV, and Kanye West’s wife Bianca Censori would each not be the most searched person on Google in 2025. He also bet that the artist D4v…
https://gizmodo.com/google-engineer-charged-with-using-insid…
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Claim 2: “A Google software engineer was accused Wednesday of using confidential company information to make …”
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Multiple sources confirm a Google software engineer was accused on a Wednesday (May 27, 2026) of using confidential company information for betting purposes on Polymarket.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence. The most recent boom happened in the early 2020s before seeing increased acceleration and media coverage. Examples of th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mob…
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Claim 3: “Google engineer made $1.2M by placing bets on Polymarket using confidential info, prosecutors allege”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that prosecutors allege a Google engineer made over $1.2 million by using confidential information to place bets on Polymarket.
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web search NEUTRAL — Following up on their debut album, Jagged Edge released J.E. Heartbreak in 2000. The album was the group's breakthrough album with several popular singles. The album went double platinum and had the h…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jagged Edge: Directed by Richard Marquand. With Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Maria Mayenzet. A wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He …
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web search NEUTRAL — Official YouTube channel for multi-platinum R&B group, Jagged Edge. NEW SINGLE Director: Azzie Scott Production Company: The Dream Dept. Producer: Carla Michelle Johnson 1st AD: Mecca DP:...
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