Crypto India|8月 31, 2026 07:07
🚨NEW: 🇺🇸 Former White House teleprompter operator made over $100K from insider trading.
1. Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, had access to Trump’s prepared speeches before they were delivered.
2. He used that information to trade on Kalshi’s prediction markets, which bet on whether Trump would say specific words or phrases.
3. Perez made $107,539 in profits from the trades.
4. Kalshi’s surveillance team flagged the suspicious trading and referred the matter to regulators.
5. The CFTC ordered Perez to repay the $107,539, pay a $65,000 fine and imposed a 3-year trading ban.
6. Perez also cooperated with the investigation, which reduced his civil penalty.
Prediction markets are now facing much closer scrutiny over insider trading and market manipulation.(Crypto India)
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