{"id":3622,"date":"2026-07-17T17:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:44:03","slug":"white-house-insists-it-has-extremely-strict-ethical-guidelines-as-teleprompter-op-goes-on-unpaid-leave-over-100000-insider-trading-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"White House insists it has \u2018extremely strict ethical guidelines\u2019 as teleprompter op goes on unpaid leave over $100,000 insider trading allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The firm\u2019s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators about bets allegedly made about what the president would say in public addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3620\">ICE officer in fatal Maine shooting had history of mental health crises, Congress learns in \u2018bombshell\u2019 report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president is aware of the situation, which she described as \u201cunfortunate\u201d and \u201ca disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe White House has extremely strict ethical guidelines with respect to issues like this,\u201d Leavitt told reporters, saying the aide is on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News reported Thursday that Gabriel Perez, who has been operating Trump\u2019s teleprompter since 2016, used his inside knowledge to win more than $100,000 betting on what the president would say in big speeches, including the State of the Union address earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Denault, Kalshi\u2019s lawyer and head of enforcement, said on X that the \u201cKalshi surveillance team promptly flagged, investigated and referred these trades\u201d to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that has regulatory authority over such matters.<\/p>\n<p>His statement did not name Perez.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have been assisting regulators on this matter and provided all evidence that we collected, as we do with any referral,\u201d Denault added.<\/p>\n<p>ABC based its report on multiple sources who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ABC report described suspicious activity on Kalshi\u2019s \u201cMentions\u201d market, in which users can place bets on what phrases and specific words might be used in public speeches. Kalshi recently began requiring users to\u00a0disclose their place of employment, and the platform\u2019s policy prohibits betting based on information that users gain because of their job.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3618\">\u2018What a wonderful group of people\u2019: Sam Adams beer founder said the Scots were consuming one every 12 seconds at their World Cup peak<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Attention on members of the administration\u00a0profiting from the presidency\u00a0has reached all the way to Trump himself.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, his media company announced it would\u00a0charge for special high-speed access\u00a0to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent financial disclosures, Trump\u00a0reported making $1.2 billion\u00a0from his crypto businesses in 2025, raking in profits while his investors suffered losses in marketplaces that Trump has sought to shield from tighter federal regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including \u201cgovernance tokens,\u201d according to the required annual disclosure report with the Office of Government Ethics. It also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenir-type \u201cmeme\u201d coins stamped with his face. Both the tokens and the coins have plunged in value since the sales.<\/p>\n<p>The president has also profited from merchandising deals and high-dollar political and official events at his properties, significantly increasing his net worth since returning to power.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s aides have stood by his personal and family business practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is abiding by all conflict-of-interest laws that are applicable to the president,\u201d Leavitt said earlier this year. It\u2019s \u201cabsurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3616\">Former Obama official on AI anxiety and the depression nobody remembers \u2014 and the training\u00a0model that gives him hope<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime aide is on unpaid leave after Kalshi flagged trades tied to presidential speeches and referred them to the CFTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House insists it has \u2018extremely strict ethical guidelines\u2019 as teleprompter op goes on unpaid leave over $100,000 insider trading allegations - 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