Article Summary

A U.S. soldier has been charged with using secret information about a mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to win over $400,000 on a prediction betting site called Polymarket. The case is the first of its kind involving insider trading on a non-traditional market, and it has drawn attention from top officials, including FBI leadership and President Donald Trump, who supports investigating such activity by government personnel. The article highlights concerns about national security risks from prediction markets, but doesn't show how common this kind of abuse might be.