Former White House teleprompter operator fined over insider trading

ABC News (Australia) reports that former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez has been ordered to pay more than one hundred seventy-two thousand dollars for using advance access to President Donald Trump's speeches to make illegal trades on a prediction-market platform. The fine is for insider trading, as Perez profited from non-public information about the speeches. Prediction markets, which let users bet on future events, made that information valuable.

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