Kalshi says that in February, the former Republican congressman “placed a series of large trades in a market where the underlying contracts depended upon his own attendance” at the State of the Union. He’s now permanently banned and penalized $71,356. In other news about everything being gambling now: * Columbia Journalism Review: Polymarket’s AI Is Feeding Users Fabricated Information * CNN: Young adults under 21 traded $5 billion on Kalshi this year, amid prediction market frenzy * New York Times: Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says

Former Congressman George Santos has been banned from the prediction market site Kalshi for life. The betting site announced several enforcement actions against suspected insider…

Kalshi says Santos did not cooperate with its investigation into bets he placed on his own attendance at the State of the Union. The company also fined the disgraced congressman…