U.S. Special Forces soldier charged with $404K insider trade on Polymarket using classified Maduro op intel!

Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, with allegedly using classified details of Operation Absolute Resolve — the mission to capture Nicolas Maduro — to pocket more than $404,000 in Polymarket profits. The DOJ indictment alleges he opened a Polymarket account on Dec. 26, 2025, bought roughly $33,934 worth of Yes shares in the "Maduro out by January 31, 2026?" contract at an average price of $0.074, and watched the contract reprice from $0.375 to $0.955 in four minutes after Trump's public announcement.

The CFTC filed a parallel civil complaint — its first-ever insider-trading case involving event contracts and its first use of the so-called Eddie Murphy Rule — treating the Maduro contract as a commodity-law instrument subject to its antifraud authority. Polymarket says it identified the suspicious trading,…