A United States Army soldier involved in the planning and execution of the mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using that inside knowledge to place bets on a prediction market, the U.S. Department of Justice said on April 23.
Authorities allege Gannon Ken Van Dyke used advance knowledge of Maduro’s removal to make more than $400,000 from wagers tied directly to the operation.
Van Dyke had access to sensitive, nonpublic details about the U.S. military operation while actively participating in it. Prosecutors say he used that information to place a series of bets on Polymarket, a site where users trade against each other on the likelihood of real-world events….