A U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant has been charged after federal prosecutors alleged he used classified intelligence from a covert Venezuela operation to place profitable trades on a prediction market platform tied to the fate of then-Venezuelan authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.
The soldier, identified as Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, allegedly took part in the classified U.S. mission in January 2026 that resulted in Maduro's capture. Axios reported that prosecutors say he later used nonpublic operational details from that mission to trade on Polymarket, a platform where users bet on real-world political and economic outcomes.
