Trump teleprompter operator ordered to pay nearly $173K over Kalshi bets on speeches

A White House teleprompter operator who used advance access to President Donald Trump's speeches to bet on what the president would say has been ordered to pay nearly $173,000 and stop trading for three years, federal regulators announced Friday.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Gabriel Perez, Trump's teleprompter operator since 2016, misappropriated material, nonpublic information obtained through his government job to trade event contracts on Kalshi, a prediction market platform, for his personal benefit.Perez, who was placed on paid administrative leave in July amid the i...

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