White House teleprompter operator hit with $172K penalty for insider-trading Trump speech bets

Gabriel Perez, a White House teleprompter operator, used nonpublic information from upcoming Trump speeches to trade on Kalshi’s prediction market, earning about $107,539 in profits; the CFTC ordered him to disgorge those profits, pay a $65,000 civil penalty, and ban him from prediction-market trading for three years, calling it insider trading with Kalshi’s assistance. Perez cooperated, had been placed on leave, and the White House did not comment.