so a Google worker gets charged for making 1.2 million on bets but the Google CEO is OK with data centers that illegally suck water and electricity and engaging in surveillance activity with Palantir.
Makes sense to me. 🙃
Makes sense to me
Because insider trading is still sometimes illegal.
But multinational corporations raping the environment and helping to build a dystopian surveillance state is not only legal, but incentivized and rewarded by the state.
Only when the poors do it.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Its USA, and you know what, no one cares.
Charged with doing the same thing the entire government does, every board member does. And every rich fuck does.
Non ironically, all he had to do is donate a part of it to someone in the trump family.
if trump is not part of the grift, he is against it.
Insider trading? Did they update finance laws to cover gambling?
It might be because they used crypto which is kinda treated like an investment vehicle now.
Polymarket skirts gambling laws by insisting it’s not gambling. Instead it’s legally registered as a futures market (or something like that, I don’t remember the details). So all bets are legally stock market trades.
Knowing that, it makes sense.
The court papers said Spagnuolo’s most lucrative alleged Polymarket wins were correctly predicting who would and would not be the most searched for person on Google in 2025.
He allegedly placed bets against names, like Bianca Censori and President Donald Trump, and chose the singer D4vd as taking the top spot when the betting platform had odds of that result being near zero.
