The Kalshi George Santos ban arrived alongside a parallel settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), resolving what regulators classified as manipulative trading on a prediction market contract tied to Santos’s own attendance at the 2026 State of the Union address. Kalshi permanently suspended Santos and fined him $71,356 via its internal compliance process. Separately, according to the CFTC’s enforcement order, Santos agre…
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