US Soldier Charged With Using Classified Data to Bet on Maduro
Source: Bloomberg Politics · Bias: Center
Summary
A US Army soldier was charged with using classified information about the timing of the US military’s capture of then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to make more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket’s prediction market, the Justice Department said Thursday.
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