Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, was ordered on August 29-30, 2026, to forfeit over $100,000 in profits and pay a $172,000 fine for using non-public information about Trump's speeches to place bets on the Kalshi prediction market. The CFTC penalty settled the insider trading probe.
A White House teleprompter operator was ordered to pay over $172,000 on August 29, 2026, to settle a federal regulator's probe into well-timed prediction-market bets about President Trump's speeches placed through Kalshi. The settlement ended the CFTC investigation.
Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, was fined $172,000 by the CFTC on August 29, 2026, for trading on prediction-market platform Kalshi using advance knowledge of President Trump's speeches. Perez profited over $100,000 from the illegal trades and was ordered to forfeit all gains.