Federal officials charge US soldier with using inside info to win $400K bet on Maduro’s capture

A U.S. soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyk, has been charged with using classified information to win $400,000 on an online betting market about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture. Van Dyk, a senior enlisted soldier in the special forces stationed at Fort Bragg, allegedly exploited his access to nonpublic government data for personal financial gain through the prediction platform Polymarket.