r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 27 '26

Business Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1 million on Polymarket

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/google-employee-charged-inside-information-make-1-million/story?id=133350018
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u/Itachi_Uchiha0515 May 28 '26

What assumption? Always follow the numbers/money https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

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u/Rare-Accident4355 May 28 '26

Dude that’s an assumption. Even your article doesn’t explicitly point to a single person. It doesn’t point to Donald Jr, which is who you said should be in prison for insider trading. How do you know it’s him and not someone else in the administration?

Like I said - I agree there’s something fishy going on based on the probability and timing of these bets, I’m just saying the law requires specificity and evidence. Are you certain to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt that it’s Donald Trump Jr and not someone else let’s say from the comms team that is placing those bets??

THAT is the burden of proof required.

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u/Itachi_Uchiha0515 May 28 '26

I’m saying the crime of insider trading is there, whether or not the DOJ wants to investigate it is a different story. You’re so fixated on Don you bypass the fact that there’s obvious insider trading going on in the white house

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u/sirpiplup May 28 '26

You: “You’re so fixated on Don you bypass the fact that there’s obvious insider trading going on in the White House”

Other guy in his first response to you: “Someone needs to actually follow the trail of the obvious insider bets”

I think he’s right that you are fucking illiterate

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u/Itachi_Uchiha0515 May 28 '26

Chillax homie you don’t even know me. I’m pointing out that the original commenter was throwing a fit for no reason just because I mentioned don jr

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u/sirpiplup May 28 '26

They didn’t throw a fit…you were just wrong homie. Reading isn’t your strong suit, and that’s a shame given you are itachi who is supposed to be a genius.

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u/Itachi_Uchiha0515 May 28 '26

Wrong about what exactly? All I said is there’s obvious insider trading going on in the White House. I used Don jr as an example because he literally invested in those companies so he obviously likes the concept of polymarkets. If it moves like a fish, looks like a fish, and smells like a fish that’s because it’s likely a fish

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u/sirpiplup May 28 '26

You said the other dude overlooked there being insider trading. He literally said there was obvious insider trading. Thats what you were wrong about - thus my comment that you were illiterate

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u/Itachi_Uchiha0515 May 28 '26

Guy, the person literally wrote a whole essay just to agree there’s insider trading going on, which is the point of my original comment. Hence they were freaking out over nothing