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Comment by polski-g

15 hours ago

How is this illegal? Polymarket isn't a US-regulated market.

From the indictment, he's being charged with the following:

* Unlawful Use of Confidential Government Information for Personal Gain

* Theft of Nonpublic Government Information

* Commodities Fraud

* Wire Fraud

* Engaging in a Monetary Transaction in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1437781/dl

  • So had this not involved presumed military secrets, it would have been legal? So it was the classified info that made it a crime, and then the insider trading aspect was later tacked on? It's crazy how the government adds so many charges. This guy is screwed.

    • That's part of the Chesterton's Fence nature of why these markets are bad. We know insider trading is a bad thing for the stock market, so it's policed. These markets, being a post-regulation internet free for all, aren't.

It's rather obviously illegal to leak classified intel by taking public actions based off of it... that's practically the meaning of the word "classified".

  • It is illegal to leak classified intel if you're just an average person.

    If you're the Trump hand-picked Secretary of the War Department then it is not illegal and will never be punished.

    Always remember which tier of justice you are on prior to committing a crime!

Not true, they lobbied very hard to be regulated under the CFTC because of its more relaxed rules