The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has settled with Gabriel Perez, a former teleprompter operator at the White House, over insider trading allegations involving contracts on the prediction platform Kalshi. Perez will forfeit $107,539 in illegal profits and pay an additional $65,000 in civil penalties. The CFTC's investigation revealed that between December 2025 and February 2026, Perez used confidential information from presidential speech texts prior to their public release. The settlement also includes a three-year ban on trading activities for Perez.