White House teleprompter operator pays fine for prediction-market insider trading

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.

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