Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading After Making $1.2M On D4vd Polymarket Bet

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. The post Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading After Making $1.2M On D4vd Polymarket Bet appeared first on Stereogum.