Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading After $1.2M Polymarket Bet on D4vd Murder Case
A Google engineer faces insider trading charges after allegedly profiting $1.2 million on Polymarket by betting on the D4vd murder case. The case involves the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, found in alt-pop singer D4vd's Tesl
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 as users were connecting the dots between 20-year-old David Anthony Burke and Hernandez. Now, NBC 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, wagering that d4vd would be Google's most-searched person of 2025.
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