White House Teleprompter Operator in Settlement Talks Over $100,000 Kalshi Bets

Gabriel Perez, a White House teleprompter operator since 2016, is in settlement talks with the CFTC. He allegedly made nearly $100,000 on Kalshi betting on words Trump would say in speeches, using his advance access to prepared remarks. Kalshi detected the activity, froze $90,000, and referred the case to regulators — the first known investigation of a White House employee for exploiting nonpublic government information on a prediction market.