Trump Teleprompter Operator Fined $172.5K for Speech Betting
Perez must repay $107,539 in profits and pay a $65,000 penalty after using advance access to Trump speech drafts, regulators said.
- On Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez to pay $172,539 for using advance access to President Donald Trump's speeches to execute illegal trades on a prediction-market platform.
- Between December 2025 and February 2026, Perez traded presidential "mention market" contracts on Kalshi, betting on specific words and phrases that would appear in Trump's speeches while working at the White House.
- The settlement requires Perez to pay a $65,000 civil monetary penalty and surrender $107,500 in profits, with the CFTC noting the penalty reflected a discount for his "exemplary cooperation" with investigators.
- Perez is no longer employed by the federal government after being placed on unpaid leave; White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the conduct "unfortunate" and "a disgrace."
- Beyond the monetary fines, Perez received a three-year trading ban and must cease violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations, with KalshiEX assisting federal regulators in the matter.
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CFTC Orders Former White House Employee to Pay $172,000 for Prediction Market Insider Trading
A former federal employee is settling CFTC charges after misappropriating advance knowledge of presidential speeches to trade event contracts on a prediction market platform and generate over $107,500 in profits.
CFTC fines former White House operator $172K over prediction market bets
A former White House teleprompter operator has agreed to pay $172,539 after U.S. regulators found he used advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to make more than $107,500 trading prediction market contracts. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on…
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White House Staffer Fined $172K for Insider Trading Scheme
Gabriel Perez, a longtime teleprompter operator for President Trump, will surrender every dollar he made betting on presidential speeches and pay an additional $65,000 civil penalty after federal regulators caught him exploiting his privileged access. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the settlement on Friday, closing a months-long probe into one of the more unusual […] The post Former White House teleprompter staffer fined $172…
White House Teleprompter Operator Fined $172K for Insider Trading Using Trump Speech Drafts
Gabriel Perez, a White House teleprompter operator, was fined £126,900 for insider trading on Trump's speeches, exploiting non-public information to profit from prediction markets.
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