A Google Engineer Whose Job Included Preparing the Company's Annual 'Year in Search' Data Bet $1.2 Million on the Exact Answer He Was Paid to Know — on a Public Blockchain Prediction Market That Records Every Transaction Permanently

Spagnuolo curated the 'Year in Search' data, placed a blockchain-recorded bet on the answer he already held under the username 'AlphaRaccoon,' and won $1.2 million — the certainty of winning being precisely the evidence that he had not come by the information through ordinary research.

Source: Axios

The Former Chief Revenue Officer of Doximity Was Sentenced to 26 Months and Ordered to Forfeit $2.5 Million for Repeatedly Trading the Company's Stock Using Confidential Earnings Information He Had Access to as a Board-Level Executive

Jorgensen used board-level access to Doximity's pre-release earnings data to trade the company's stock and options ahead of public announcements — a pattern the SEC's automated surveillance flags around every corporate earnings cycle — and repeated the scheme until prosecutors had accumulated enough transactions to charge him.

Source: Washington Times

The Bard College Board of Trustees Voted to Remove President Leon Botstein After 51 Years, Following an Investigation Into His Connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The Official Announcement Called It a Voluntary Retirement.

Botstein did not opt to retire — the board voted in late April to end his 51-year tenure following an Epstein investigation — and the departure announcement characterized a board-imposed termination as a voluntary decision, which held for approximately as long as it took journalists to contact board members.

Source: Inside Higher Ed

A Villages Man's Golf Cart DUI Killed His Passenger. He Dragged Her Body to a Flower Bed and Drove Away.

Foxworth's passenger was killed when he threw her from the golf cart; his response was to drag her body to a flower bed and drive away — a relocation that addressed neither his legal exposure nor the question of where the blood on his shirt had come from.

Source: Babiarz Law Firm

Cornell University Is Investigating Whether Its President Drove His Car Into Student Protesters. The Protesters Say He Hit Them. The University Says the Vehicle 'Made Contact.'

Source: Inside Higher Ed