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By SectorWire desk ·
The report said that George Santos agreed a $35,000 settlement with CFTC. The case concerned allegations that he profited from a Kalshi market about his attendance at the State of the Union.
The agreement resolves the regulator’s market manipulation investigation.
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Kalshi imposed a permanent ban and financial penalty over alleged manipulation involving Santos’s trading and public attendance statements.
The action addresses manipulation of a contract linked to Santos’s own conduct.
The settlement resolves an investigation into an alleged event-contract trade involving Santos’ own attendance.
The penalty addresses misleading public statements linked to event contract trading.
Reported wash trading estimates and sports betting concentration put prediction platforms’ trading integrity and younger users under scrutiny.
Kalshi’s first permanent exclusion demonstrates its enforcement response to alleged manipulation of political prediction contracts.