Utah Files Criminal Charges Against Kalshi and Executives Over Alleged Illegal Gambling Promotion
The state of Utah has filed 14 criminal charges against prediction market platform Kalshi, its CEO Tarek Mansour, and COO Luana Lopes Lara. The charges include 12 counts of illegally promoting online gambling, marking a significant escalation in the legal challenges facing prediction markets across the United States. This action follows similar legal maneuvers by several other states, including New York, Nevada, and Washington, against Kalshi, while Polymarket faces litigation in New York and Kentucky. The conflict highlights a jurisdictional tug-of-war between state regulators and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which maintains that it holds exclusive authority over these platforms. Kalshi has dismissed the charges as "crazy overreach" and intends to contest them in court, citing a previous legal victory in Arizona where a federal judge blocked similar criminal charges.
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