#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #PDF. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#gambling allegedly won Master Sgt. #Gannon Ken Van Dyke US$400k for leaking the raid on #Venezuela to kidnap Nicolas #Maduro, but he's been arrested and an indictment was unsealed today. “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] filed a related complaint against Van Dyke on Thursday, seeking restitution, disgorgement and civil monetary penalties.” #Polymarket’s stance has changed from “super cool (...) creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market” in November to “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.” #prediction-markets #news #USA #politics
on 02026-04-23money laundering through #gambling on the lottery, or buying winning tickets from the original winners, or buying houses from them (??), or advance-fee-scamming elderly people with imaginary lotteries. This article is astoundingly poorly written and thought out. #politics #news
on 02025-08-21people using online #gambling sites for money laundering: “the criminal exploitation of legitimate and unlicensed digital wagering operations to launder money.” But without actually gambling! “Fintrac found a common tactic was the purchase of prepaid cards or vouchers using suspected proceeds of crime. They were then used to deposit money into gambling accounts, followed by withdrawals through wire or e-transfer to a Canadian bank account under the guise of winnings.” #Canada #politics #news
on 02025-08-21