{"id":109,"date":"2026-04-24T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/soldier-won-410k-in-polymarket-bets-on-timing-of-maduro-capture-us-alleges\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:41:43","slug":"soldier-won-410k-in-polymarket-bets-on-timing-of-maduro-capture-us-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/soldier-won-410k-in-polymarket-bets-on-timing-of-maduro-capture-us-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A US Army soldier was arrested for insider trading after being accused of making prediction-market wagers on the timing of the military&#8217;s capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke made a profit of nearly $410,000 by making bets on Polymarket, and he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/media\/1437781\/dl\">indicted<\/a> on charges of unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-prediction-market-bets\">announced yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As alleged in the indictment, Van Dyke participated in the planning and execution of the US military operation to capture Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, called &#8216;Operation Absolute Resolve,&#8217; and Van Dyke used his access to classified information about that operation to personally profit,&#8221; the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/04\/soldier-won-410k-in-polymarket-bets-on-timing-of-maduro-capture-us-alleges\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/04\/soldier-won-410k-in-polymarket-bets-on-timing-of-maduro-capture-us-alleges\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s like &#8220;Pete Rose betting on his own team,&#8221; Trump says of arrested soldier.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-consumer-tech","tag-culture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}