Soldier Charged With Using Classified Data to Bet on Maduro (1)

A US Army soldier was charged with using classified information about the timing of the capture of then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to make more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket’s prediction market, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, a special forces soldier stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was involved in the planning and execution of Operation Absolute Resolve, a military effort to capture Maduro, the US said.

Prosecutors said that around Dec. 26, Van Dyke created and funded a Polymarket account, and began trading on contracts tied to whether Maduro would be out as ...