A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to pay $172,000 to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for trading on Kalshi’s event contracts involving mention markets related to government officials. This case marks the CFTC’s second insider trading case involving a federal employee trading event contracts and the second related settlement in four weeks. The regulator is intensifying its scrutiny of predictive market transactions involving privileged federal government information.
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