US CFTC Fines Former White House Aides $172,000 in Insider Trading Contract Case

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Gabriel Perez was ordered to disgorge $107,539.02 in illicit profits and pay a $65,000 civil penalty, totaling approximately $172,000, for utilizing material nonpublic information obtained during his federal government tenure to trade presidential mention-type event contracts on prediction market platforms.