Veteran White House staffer Gabriel Perez is believed to have made more than $100,000 by exploiting advance knowledge of the US president’s remarks
US President Donald Trump’s veteran teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez is under investigation over an alleged insider betting scheme tied to the president’s speeches.
The aide is believed to have earned thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump’s remarks on prediction market Kalshi, a platform where users trade contracts on the outcome of future events.
Perez has served as one of Trump’s teleprompter operators since the president’s first campaign in 2016 – a role former aides have described as very challenging due to Trump’s tendency to improvise. Perez was one of only a few people with advance access to Trump’s speeches and was known to receive last-minute edits directly from Trump.
According to ABC News, which first broke the story on Thursday, a federal probe was launched after Kalshi flagged unusual trading activity on its ‘Mentions’ market, where users can bet on which words and phrases public figures will say during speeches and events. The company said it referred the matter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal regulator overseeing the industry.
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