The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has reached a settlement with Gabriel Perez over allegations of insider trading involving contracts related to presidential mentions on the prediction platform Kalshi. Perez is required to forfeit $107,539 in illicit profits and pay a civil penalty of $65,000. According to the regulator, from December 2025 to February 2026, while serving as a teleprompter operator at the White House, he exploited confidential information from speech texts before they were made public. The order also mandates an end to the violations and imposes a three-year trading ban on Perez.