{
  "id": 4527006,
  "title": "Ex-White House Teleprompter Operator Fined for Prediction Market Insider Trading",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-fined-for-prediction-market",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-30T23:31:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/376909/white-house-teleprompter-fined-prediction-market-trading"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, has been fined for using inside information to bet on Donald Trump's speeches. He accessed Trump's speeches before they were delivered and used this information to make trades on a prediction markets platform called Kalshi. Perez profited more than $107,539.02 from these trades.\n\nThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) found that Perez had \"misappropriated\" his prior knowledge of Trump's speeches to place bets, breaching his duty of trust and confidence. As a result, Perez was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $65,000 and surrender his profits. According to MyJoyOnline Ghana, he was also banned from trading for three years.\n\nThe CFTC noted that Perez's civil penalty was reduced due to his \"exemplary co-operation\" with the investigation. Kalshi's lead lawyer welcomed the decision, stating that it demonstrates that violating rules or federal law will result in consequences, regardless of who is involved.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "BBC World",
        "title": "Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-ordered-to-pay-172-000-for-trump",
        "published": "2026-08-29T07:11:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Island Sri Lanka",
        "title": "Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-ordered-to-pay-172-000-for-trump-4152543",
        "published": "2026-08-29T08:09:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "KahawaTungu",
        "title": "Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-ordered-to-pay-172-000-for-trump-4228157",
        "published": "2026-08-29T14:41:20.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Live Mint",
        "title": "Trump speech bets land ex-White House teleprompter operator in trouble, fined ₹1.65 crore: What CFTC found",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/trump-speech-bets-land-ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-in",
        "published": "2026-08-29T15:13:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "Ex-White House staffer fined $173K for Trump speech bets on Kalshi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/ex-white-house-staffer-fined-173k-for-trump-speech-bets-on-kalshi",
        "published": "2026-08-29T18:15:38.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "Ex-White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Trump speech bets",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/ex-white-house-teleprompter-operator-ordered-to-pay-172-000-for-trump",
        "published": "2026-08-30T09:04:48.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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