Former Trump White House teleprompter staffer Gabriel Perez must pay over $172,000 and accept a three-year trading ban after a federal investigation found he used advance access to presidential speeches to make illicit prediction-market trades, a breach that the White House called “deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace.”
Gabriel Perez, who began serving as President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator in 2016, has reached a sweeping settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after investigators uncovered that he placed bets on so-called “presidential mention market contracts” over a two-month period from December 2025 to February 2026. According to the CFTC, Perez exploited his privileged position by trading on confidential information, specifically, knowledge of the words or phrases the president intended to use in upcoming speeches.
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