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Google engineer charged after making $1.2 million on Polymarket bets — showing insider trading is becoming everyone’s problem

Prediction markets have an insider-trading problem that one-off cases might not solve.

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What happened

According to MarketWatch’s source item, Google engineer charged after making $1.2 million on Polymarket bets — showing insider trading is becoming everyone’s problem, Prediction markets have an insider-trading problem that one-off cases might not solve.

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Source

Primary source: Google engineer charged after making $1.2 million on Polymarket bets — showing insider trading is becoming everyone’s problem via MarketWatch. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.

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Google engineer charged after making $1.2 million on Polymarket bets — showing insider trading is becoming everyone’s problemMarketWatch - 2026-05-28T16:44:00+00:00

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