U.S. soldier arrested for $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro capture

Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. Army soldier WHO took part in the raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, was arrested after the Justice Department unsealed an indictment. The indictment says Van Dyke used classified, nonpublic information from the operation to place about $30,000 in wagers on Polymarket, yielding roughly $400,000 in profit. He is charged with unlawful use of confidential government information, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction, and prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of the winnings. Van Dyke faces up to 60 years in prison, and the case raises national security concerns about insiders profiting from operational intelligence.