Michele Spagnuolo, who has worked at Google since 2014, has been charged with one count each of commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

Michele Spagnuolo used his access to the annual Year in Search list to place huge bets on which public figures would be the most searched on Google last year.

A Google security engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, was arrested and charged over alleged insider trading by placing bets on ...