Former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez must surrender $107,539.02 in prediction-market profits and pay a $65,000 civil monetary penalty under a settled CFTC administrative order announced Aug. 28, for a total of $172,539.02, after the agency found he traded on advance access to presidential speeches. Perez traded Kalshi presidential mention contracts between December 2025 and February 2026 while working at the White House, winning 39 of 43 contracts; the event contracts, which the CFTC describes as swaps, settled on whether President Donald Trump used specified words or phrases. The order also imposes a cease-and-desist requirement and a three-year trading ban. The CFTC said the civil penalty was substantially reduced for Perez's exemplary cooperation and separately credited KalshiEX with assistance after the exchange flagged, investigated and referred the activity; the release does not charge the exchange or find a surveillance failure. The case sits alongside other prediction-market insider-trading matters, including Polymarket trades tied to U.S. Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke and a Kalshi penalty against a MrBeast-affiliated editor, as federal-state fights over event-contract jurisdiction continue.