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Y Combinator-backed Kalshi shuts down betting on fate of Luigi Mangione, after receiving “notice from our regulator”
On Dec. 11, just one week after Brian Thompson was fatally shot in midtown Manhattan in what officials believe was a targeted attack, Kalshi listed wagers related to Mangione.
A New York-based betting market platform reportedly allowed users to place money on the fate of the alleged assassin arrested in the cold-blooded killing of UnitedHealth’s Brian Thompson — before the trades were abruptly shut down by regulators. Kalshi is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which prohibits events contracts linked to crimes, terrorism and war if the agency deems them against the public interest, Bloomberg reported. KalshiThe company’s founder was subjected to an FBI raid last month as part of a criminal probe into whether the exchange accepted trades from US bettors on Donald Trump’s historic victory over Kamala Harris, The Post previously reported.
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