Gabriel Perez paid $170,000 to resolve insider trading allegations by the CFTC, including a $65,000 penalty and returning $107,000 in illicit profits from Kalshi trades.
The penalty includes a $65,000 fine and return of over $107,000 in illicit profits
Aug 29, 2026
11:53 am
What's the storyGabriel Perez, a teleprompter operator at the White House, has been fined over $172,000 to settle an investigation by a federal regulator.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had probed him over allegedly making well-timed bets on prediction market platform Kalshi using inside information about President Donald Trump's speeches.
The fine marks the CFTC's second insider trading case against a federal employee trading event contracts and its second related…
CFTC orders ex-White House operator Gabriel Perez to pay $172,539 after using Trump speech information to bet on Kalshi.
Gabriel Perez made over $100,000 on the Kalshi prediction market, per the CFTC.
A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has…
He was placed on unpaid leave from his job at the White House after it was determined he used his position to make bets on what…
The settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, announced Friday, also dealt Gabriel Perez a three-year trading ban.
