U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets
U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets Charged with using classified info about the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuel to bet roughly $33,000 on Polymarket, turning a ~$409,000 profit before attempting to conceal his identity by deleting accounts and routing funds through a foreign crypto vault He faces charges including Commodity Exchange Act violations, wire fraud, and unlawful monetary transactions, while the CFTC has filed a parallel civil complaint and Trump has signaled a review of federal employees' partici…
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