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.
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A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 penalty as part of a federal settlement.
A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than US$100,000 in profits and pay a US$65,000 fine as part of a settlement with federal authorities. The settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, announced on Friday, also dealt Gabriel Perez a three-year trading ban. Perez w
He was placed on unpaid leave from his job at the White House after it was determined he used his position to make bets on what President Trump would say in speeches.
A White House teleprompter operator was ordered to pay $172,000 after using nonpublic information about Trump’s upcoming speeches to place prediction-market bets on Kalshi. Gabriel Perez must repay $107,539 in profits, pay a $65,000 fine, and is banned from prediction-market trading for three years. Source: NBC News
The staffer was found to have used his prior knowledge of the president's speeches to place lucrative bets.
The White House teleprompter operator who placed online bets on President Trump’s speeches has been ordered to pay a total of $172,000, a federal agency said Friday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a news release that Gabriel Perez must pay out his profits from trade, totaling $107,539.02, in addition to a civil...
Gabriel Perez made over $100,000 on the Kalshi prediction market, per the CFTC.
Former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez has been ordered to pay more than $US172,000 for using advance access to US President Donald Trump's speeches to make illegal trades on a prediction-market platform.