Fired Trump Goon Ordered to Pay Up After Insider Trading Bust

Carlos Barria/Reuters A longtime White House aide caught using insider knowledge to pocket thousands on a prediction market has been ordered to pay back all his profits—plus a healthy fine. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that Gabriel Perez, who spent a decade as Trump’s teleprompter operator before he was fired from his cushy White House role this summer, must pay a total of $172,000 for his illegal trades on Kalshi. That sum breaks down to Perez paying back…