US soldier pinched for profiting off Maduro abduction bets
The US Justice Department announced that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis of classified information, on the timing of the Trump administration’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty soldier in the US Army […] The post US soldier pinched for profiting off Maduro abduction bets appeared first on Asia Times.
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