A U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant was arrested Thursday on charges that he used classified knowledge of a covert military operation to place prediction market bets, walking away with more than $400,000 in profits, federal prosecutors said. The case has renewed bipartisan calls in Congress for tighter regulation of platforms where users wager on geopolitical events. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38
Army sergeant bet $33K on his own secret mission and won $400,000
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