Ex-White House Employee Fined $172,000 for Insider Trading on Prediction Markets

2026-08-29

A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to pay $172,000 in civil penalties for illegal insider trading on Kalshi, a regulated futures exchange. This marks the second such case against a federal employee by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) within a month.

Source: The Block

Reported by VERA Newswire.