George Santos, the former lawmaker convicted of fraud, got in fresh trouble following his release from prison by making illegal bets on Kalshi. Then, hours after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered the former U.S. representative to pay $35,000 for manipulative trading, Santos fired off a social media broadside, vowing to shut down the prediction market platform, and accused it of hiding behind a “protection veil” of contract swaps to dodge gambling regulation.
In response, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour shot back on X, saying the platform should be judged by its enemies: casinos, insider traders, and, now, Santos himself.
