- A U.S. soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was charged with using secret government info to profit more than $400,000 on a prediction-market bet tied to a Venezuela operation, spotlighting insider-trading risks.
- Other worrying trades — like candidates betting on their own races and an anonymous user making $300,000+ on pardons — have left the public uneasy about money influencing politics.
- Lawmakers and watchdogs are pushing bans on federal officials trading on prediction markets, clearer laws and tougher CFTC enforcement, and outright prohibitions on bets about deaths, elections and military actions.
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