{"id":257241,"date":"2026-04-24T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=257241"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:31:58","slug":"us-soldier-accused-of-placing-400000-bet-on-maduros-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/257241\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldier accused of placing $400,000 bet on Maduro\u2019s removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A US Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 ‌by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to Maduro’s Jan. 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with US Army Special Forces, used sensitive classified information to make wagers on prediction market Polymarket that US forces would enter Venezuela and that Maduro would be out of power.<\/p>\n

A grand jury in Manhattan federal court indicted Van Dyke, 38, on charges of unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft ⁠of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 ‌by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday, Reuters writes. In the weeks leading up to Maduro’s Jan. 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with US Army […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":257189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257242,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257241\/revisions\/257242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}