How a Google Engineer Made $1M on Polymarket (And How the CFTC Caught Him) | Ethicast Reacts

Podcast: Ethicast · Ethicast

Opublikowano: 2026-06-01

A Google information security engineer with access to the company's internal search trend data allegedly used that data to place 23 Polymarket bets — and won 22 of them, netting nearly $1 million. His handle was AlphaRaccoon. The CFTC and DOJ aren't laughing. In this episode of Ethicast Reacts, host Bill Coffin and Ethisphere Chief Strategy Officer Erica Salmon-Byrne break down the charges — commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering — and what the case reveals about a risk most ethics and compliance teams haven't fully mapped yet. This is the fourth predic...