US Soldier Who Traded on Maduro Contract Challenges CFTC Case, Argues Polymarket Trades Weren’t Swaps

A U.S. Army Special Forces member, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, is asking a federal judge to dismiss the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s civil case against him, arguing that the trades he made on Polymarket were not “swaps” under the Commodity Exchange Act. The CFTC filed its lawsuit in April, the same day the Justice …