US soldier seeks swift dismissal amid expanding Polymarket classified betting fraud legal battle

A US Army Special Forces soldier accused by federal regulators of using confidential military information to profit from prediction market trades is asking a federal judge to move quickly toward considering dismissal of the government’s civil enforcement case. In a July 6 letter to US District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr., attorneys for Gannon Ken Van Dyke requested a pre-motion conference before filing an expected motion to dismiss the US.