NPR reporter threatened by George Santos after revealing federal investigations into his prediction market bets
By
Bobby Allyn
Kettled twice. Extra chewy, extra trustworthy.
Summary
Former Congressman George Santos threatened an NPR reporter after she published a story revealing federal investigations (by the Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission) into his betting activity on the prediction market Kalshi. Santos was found to be betting against his own appearance at Trump's State of the Union address, and when confronted by the reporter, he made a violent threat and later lied about making it.
Key quotes
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Officials at the company detected that he was betting against his appearance at Trump's State of the Union address in February, just as he posted
Then he made a violent threat and lied about it
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