Insider Trading
Google Engineer’s $1.2M Polymarket Win Exposes Prediction Market Enforcement Gap
Federal charges against Michele Spagnuolo prove existing fraud laws can reach crypto-native platforms, but reveal why regulators lack surveillance infrastructure to detect insider trading before trades settle.
Federal Prosecutors Charge Google Engineer With Insider Trading on Prediction Markets
DOJ establishes new precedent treating aggregated search data as material non-public information in first prosecution targeting early access to trend analytics.
CFTC Probes $2.6 Billion Oil Futures Spike Before Trump Iran Announcements
Regulators investigate whether material nonpublic information from government channels leaked to traders ahead of policy decisions that moved crude markets by double digits.
Trump Promoted Palantir Stock on Truth Social After $630K Purchase, Raising SEC Disclosure Questions
Presidential endorsement of defense contractor followed unreported March acquisitions, exposing regulatory gaps in executive branch securities oversight.
BigLaw Insider Trading Case Exposes Broken Information Barriers Across Elite M&A Firms
Federal prosecutors charge 30 people in decade-long scheme where transient lawyer exploited access controls at six top firms, generating tens of millions in illicit profits.
Federal Prosecutors Charge 30 in Decade-Long Insider Trading Ring Involving Elite M&A Lawyers
DOJ alleges systematic exploitation of information barriers at white-shoe firms spanning 30 merger deals, exposing structural weaknesses in deal-making infrastructure.
Regulators Struggle to Police Front-Running of Trump’s Market-Moving Posts
Over $500 million in suspicious trades ahead of presidential announcements expose enforcement gaps as agencies debate whether social media constitutes insider information.
Crude Futures Surge Before Iran Ceasefire Reveals Gaps in Cross-Market Surveillance
$580 million in oil contracts traded in 15 minutes before Trump's announcement, alongside $600,000 in prediction market profits, exposing regulatory blind spots in geopolitical intelligence leaks.
Crude Oil Trades 15 Minutes Before Trump’s Iran Announcement Trigger Insider Trading Probe
Approximately 6,200 futures contracts worth $580 million executed at 6:49 a.m. ET on March 23—before Trump posted about ceasefire talks—expose how thin premarket liquidity creates billion-dollar front-running windows for politically connected traders.
Senators Target Prediction Market Trading by Federal Officials
Merkley and Klobuchar introduce legislation to ban government insiders from profiting on Polymarket and Kalshi, extending STOCK Act principles to a $60 billion market plagued by suspicious trades.
OpenAI Fires Employee Over Prediction Market Trading Using Confidential Information
The termination marks the first confirmed enforcement action by a major AI company against insider trading on cryptocurrency-based betting platforms, establishing a governance precedent as tech firms confront a regulatory vacuum.
Kalshi Fines MrBeast Editor $20,000 in First Public Insider Trading Case
Artem Kaptur's 'near-perfect' bet record on YouTube content markets marks prediction platforms' first enforcement against a social media employee.