A U.S. Army special operations soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged with illegally betting on his ouster on the Polymarket prediction market. The Justice Department says Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke earned more than $400,000 on the trades. He faces charges including unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, the theft ⁠of nonpublic government information, and commodities and wire fraud. At the White House on Thursday, a reporter asked President Trump about the indictment. Trump responded, “I’ll look into it.” 

President Donald Trump: “The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino. And you look at what’s going on all over the world, in Europe and everyplace they’re doing these betting things. I was never much in favor of it. I don’t like it conceptually, but it is what it is.”

President Trump is a longtime casino magnate whose businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection four times between 1991 and 2009. His son, Donald Trump Jr., is an adviser to the two leading prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi.