{"id":1513654,"date":"2026-06-08T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=3fb4521d06dd65e28f9d90be90e06c6d"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:39:12","slug":"lawyers-for-soldier-who-allegedly-made-400000-off-maduros-capture-returning-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513654","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers for soldier who allegedly made $400,000 off Maduro&#8217;s capture returning to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/163cd3f1ab4745b123d7e4e12d63c22e.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption> President of Venezuela Nicol\u00e1s Maduro speaks during a march on November 21, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela. (Jesus Vargas\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(NEW YORK) -- Attorneys for the&nbsp;U.S. Army special forces soldier who was charged with using classified information about the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to make&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/doj-arrests-soldier-made-400000-betting-maduros-removal\/story?id=132325426\">more than $400,000<\/a>&nbsp;on the prediction market Polymarket are returning to a Manhattan courtroom Monday.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/special-forces-soldier-won-400000-betting-maduros-capture\/story?id=132442898\">pleaded not guilty<\/a>&nbsp;in April after prosecutors alleged he used inside information to place 13 bets on the outcome of the Maduro raid then attempted to destroy evidence of the trades after he pocketed more than $400,000.&nbsp;<\/p><p>U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett scheduled the status conference to follow up on pre-trial issues, including the turning over of evidence that began last month.&nbsp;<\/p><p>During Van Dyke\u2019s arraignment in April, his defense attorney said he expected few factual disputes over the allegations in the case and believed that the prosecution would \"largely rise and fall\" on pre-trial motions.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Van Dyke, an experienced special forces soldier, was released on a $250,000 personal recognizance bond. According to his attorney Zach Intrater, he is currently on leave from the Army.&nbsp;<\/p><p>As allegations of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/after-soldier-allegedly-wins-400000-betting-maduros-capture\/story?id=132544100\">insider trading<\/a>&nbsp;prompt&nbsp;public scrutiny of&nbsp;sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, the Van Dyke prosecution is believed to be the first case of insider trading on a prediction market.<\/p><p>Prosecutors in New York last month also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/google-employee-charged-inside-information-make-1-million\/story?id=133350018\">charged a Google employee<\/a>&nbsp;with using confidential company information to make more than $1.2 million on Polymarket.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> President of Venezuela Nicol\u00e1s Maduro speaks during a march on November 21, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela. (Jesus Vargas\/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) &#8212; Attorneys for the&nbsp;U.S. Army special forces soldier who was charged with using classified information &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3206,"featured_media":1513657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/163cd3f1ab4745b123d7e4e12d63c22e.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 12:43:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/163cd3f1ab4745b123d7e4e12d63c22e.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513658,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513654\/revisions\/1513658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}