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Green Beret Arrested for $400,000 Polymarket Windfall
Apr 24, 2026Crime

Green Beret Arrested for $400,000 Polymarket Windfall on the Maduro Raid He Helped Plan

Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a US Army Special Forces soldier who participated in Operation Absolute Resolve — the January 2026 capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro — was arrested Thursday on federal charges of using classified military information to place $33,000 in prediction market bets that returned $409,000, in the first CFTC insider trading prosecution of a prediction market event contract.

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