WASHINGTON: A US soldier faces charges for using classified information to bet on online prediction markets related to the US operation to capture former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro , the Department of Justice said on Thursday (Apr 24). US Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, allegedly made over US$400,000 by using the online platform Polymarket to bet on outcomes related to US forces arriving in Venezuela's capital Caracas and deposing Maduro - an