Washington, May 4 -- Congressman Eugene Vindman issued the following press release:
Congressman Eugene Vindman (D-Va.-07) today led 15 Members of Congress in sending a bipartisan letter to Secretary Pete Hegseth urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to issue a general order prohibiting military personnel from using prediction markets to bet on national security-related events.
The request follows the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charging an active-duty Special Operations soldier with using classified information tied to the raid that captured Nicolas Maduro to place bets on Polymarket, profiting more than $400,000.
Prediction market contracts have increasingly tracked sensitive military developments, including active bets tied to ...