CFTC v. Gabriel Perez (insider trading, 2026)

Judgment entered

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In August 2026 the CFTC settled charges against Gabriel Perez, a White House teleprompter operator who traded prediction-market event contracts on non-public information from his federal job. He must disgorge $107,539.02, pay a $65,000 penalty and accept a three-year trading ban.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$65k

Disgorgement

$108k

Prejudgment interest

—

Total relief

$173k

Alleged gain

—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the order on August 28, 2026 as release 9289-26.

The order finds that between December 2025 and February 2026 Perez misappropriated material non-public information obtained through his government employment to trade event contracts on a prediction market platform for his own benefit.

He must disgorge profits of $107,539.02 and pay a $65,000 civil penalty, discounted for cooperation, and is barred from trading for three years. The earlier record showed only the penalty.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

• Insider trading — see how it works, what statute it engages, and every other action tagged the same way.

Timeline

1. 2026-08-28 CFTC release published

Primary documents

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• CFTC release
• CFTC order or complaint

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.