The FBI raided the home of Polymarket CEO, 26-year-old Shayne Coplan, seizing his phone and electronics after the betting platform predicted Donald Trump’s election win.
According to Reuters, Federal law enforcement agents raided the downtown New York home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan on Wednesday, seizing his phone and electronics, the company confirmed.
The early-morning raid of Coplan’s SoHo apartment followed last week’s presidential election, in which bettors on Polymarket, an offshore, crypto-fueled election gambling website, had for weeks put Donald Trump’s odds drastically higher than those of Vice President Kamala Harris, in sharp divergence from opinion polls, Reuters reports.
It’s “grand political theater at its worst,” the source told The New York Post. “They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons.”
Coplan was not provided with a reason for the raid, but the source suspects it was political retribution since Polymarket accurately predicted an easy Trump triumph over Vice President Kamala Harris – as opposed to traditional polls.
Coplan was not arrested and has not been charged, a Polymarket spokesperson told The Post on Wednesday evening.
“Polymarket is a fully transparent prediction market that helps everyday people better understand the events that matter most to them, including elections,” the rep said.
“We charge no fees, take no trading positions, and allow observers from around the world to analyze all market data as a public good.”
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Poor kid, only thing WRONG was he wasn’t ashkenazim or a Brussels banker….just white.
This was inevitable. The anti-Trumpers and the DE Swampcritters will be doing crap like this right up to the point where President Trump says: ‘So help me God’.
The commies presently in charge of alphabet bureaus will screw with anti-authoritarians until the last breath.
pray that Gaetz gets anointed…Thune will try his best, I believe, to prevent Gaetz from becoming AG. Gaetz will put an end to the police state BS!
I fail to see the correlation. Millions of people predicted Trump’s win. This has to be about something else.
Democrats will probably accuse Trump of having won a rigged election, like they accused him of colluding with Russia and they accuse him of anything they pull out of their rear end.
They are right now doing the equivalent of fabricating and gathering evidence.
Which is ironic because after the 2020 election they refused to look for any evidence of cheating.
The spectacular raid on that guy who predicted a Trump win will be presented as evidence Trump had rigged the election, and some people were in on the “scam”.
The media will talk about that a lot, and naive people will believe it like they believed the Russia-Russia thing.
Trump has won the election, but Democrats will not stop doing illegal and immoral things to try and destroy Trump.
Democrats are very evil people and they will do things in the next 4 years so evil we cannot even imagine them.