Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida says the soldier charged with using inside information about the raid that captured former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to bet on its outcome should be pardoned.
Special forces soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke “bet a total of approximately $33,034” on the Maduro operation on Polymarket, netting more than $409,000 from 13 bets that began days before the operation took place, according to a Department of Justicenews release.
The release said Van Dyke “participated in the planning and execution of the U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro.”
He was charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.
Luna said that given the breadth of insider trading in Congress — an allegation leveled for many years at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the Justice Department should either prosecute everyone who profits off of what they know, or they should not prosecute anyone.
“Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned,” Lunapostedon X.
“Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice,” she wrote.
“There is no ‘justice’ when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are illegally profiting every day,” she wrote.
Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned. Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice. There is no “justice” when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are…https://t.co/b5hFXY3Ryp
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna)April 23, 2026
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