Luke Garrett
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670 appearances
94 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 May
Luke Garrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These bets raise serious questions about how campaign operatives can turn private information into a quick payday amid an unsettled legal landscape for prediction markets.
Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
Two campaign staffers granted anonymity for fear of retribution said the method is simple.
Campaign staffers would get an unreleased poll, use it to buy advantageous event contracts, and then sell their contracts once the poll was released and their contract price soared.
One staffer admitted to doing this themselves.
They won thousands, and their bet was verified by prediction market data reviewed by NPR.
Current law bars prediction market bettors from using insider information to make money.
But former commissioner at the Commodities Future Trading Commission, Kristen Johnson, doubted that the agency could police, quote, election positions.
These bets raise serious questions about how campaign operatives can turn private information into a quick payday amid an unsettled legal landscape for prediction markets.
Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
One reason is money.
Last summer, the GOP-controlled Congress passed billions in spending for ICE, and that money is allowing ICE to keep the lights on and pay its agents.
Meanwhile, the rest of DHS, which includes TSA, can't pay their workers during this partial shutdown.
Trump is basically shifting personnel resources within DHS to solve this immediate problem of airport staff shortages and delays.
But the president of the union that covers TSA workers really blasted this deployment plan, saying, you know, ICE agents are untrained and will make airport security
worse.
On Sunday morning, Trump posted on social media that ICE agents will go to U.S.
airports to help Transportation Security Administration workers, TSA workers.
Trump then blamed Democrats for the shutdown, which the White House says caused TSA staffing shortages and those long lines.
But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries threw blame back at Trump, criticizing this planned ICE deployment at airports.
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