Michele Spagnuolo, a Google information security engineer, was arrested in New York and charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly using internal Year in Search data to place Polymarket bets that generated $1.2 million in profits. The complaint, unsealed Wednesday in the Southern District of New York, states Spagnuolo accessed confidential systems to wager under the username AlphaRaccoon that artist d4vd would rank as Google's most-searched person for 2025. Both NPR and CNBC reported the charges and core facts from the unsealed documents.