CFTC Fines Federal Employee $172K for Insider Trading on Kalshi Event Markets

The CFTC ordered a former White House teleprompter operator to pay $172,000 for trading on non-public information in Kalshi's prediction markets, marking its second federal-employee insider trading settlement in a month. Operators in event-contract and prediction-market infrastructure should note the CFTC is actively enforcing insider trading rules in this asset class.