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FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source
nypost.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2024 | Taylor Herzlich

Posted on 11/15/2024 4:46:39 AM PST by V_TWIN

FBI agents raided the Manhattan apartment of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan early Wednesday — just a week after the election betting platform accurately predicted Donald Trump’s stunning victory, The Post has learned.

The 26-year-old entrepreneur was roused from bed in his Soho pad at 6 a.m. by US law enforcement personnel who demanded he turn over his phone and other electronic devices, a source close to the matter told The Post.

It’s “grand political theater at its worst,” the source told The 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 predicted an easy Trump triumph over Vice President Kamala Harris — as opposed to traditional polls.

The source also speculated that the government is likely piggybacking off liberal media reports that accuse Polymarket of market manipulation and rigging its polls in favor of Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; fbi; kamalasfault; obamasfault; polymarket; tyranny
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1 posted on 11/15/2024 4:46:39 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

We should soooo glad that our Just-Us department has done such a great job eliminating all crime that something such as this is all they have to do. Or, is it perhaps that this is all that they can do given their juvenile leadership? Boy, did that clown show justify Trump’s election.


2 posted on 11/15/2024 4:52:34 AM PST by Da Coyote (H)
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To: V_TWIN

So, the FBI need not obtain a search warrant or advise the reason for the seizure? Feels mighty onerous.


3 posted on 11/15/2024 4:52:58 AM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: V_TWIN

What kind of poll rigging can happen when you merely report who people are betting on?

Most of the other polls were dramatically off the results for two years. They are the ones to be raided in the wee hours of the morning.

EC


4 posted on 11/15/2024 4:53:16 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: muglywump

Sure does.


5 posted on 11/15/2024 4:55:54 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Ex-Con777

That’s exactly it. People lay their money down and the bets reflect the vote. This is not a mystery. They are probably going to try and hang him on the idea of him manipulating the bets.


6 posted on 11/15/2024 4:59:23 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: muglywump

Onerous, and DANGEROUS!!


7 posted on 11/15/2024 5:03:17 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: V_TWIN

Excellent! More people that have exposed themselves so they can be fired on Day One.


8 posted on 11/15/2024 5:13:18 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: V_TWIN

Unless this is connected to side-issues, this is totally unconstitutional...................


9 posted on 11/15/2024 5:24:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN
After the inauguration, all the FBI officials and agents--those who suggested this stunt, those who ordered it, those who executed it, and those who knew of it and kept silent about it--should be arrested and tried for conspiracy, breaking and entering, assault and battery, false imprisonment, theft, perjury, and perhaps in some cases, murder. And then would follow the assorted lawsuits for libel and slander in courts throughout the land.

That ought to get the attention of the lawfarers, and also of the acquaintances they will make in Federal and state prison.

Is the FBI rotten enough to simply disband and replace with something honest? Or does it contain an honest core who can be efficiently discerned by honest investigators? Perhaps whistle-blowers can help uncover the truth in the possibly thousands of cases that will need to be re-examined and overturned, with the dishonest investigators and officers imprisoned or otherwise punished, as appropriate.

It was a travesty to reduce an agency that has trained and employed so many honest, heroic, and sacrificial men who have been genuine protectors of our country and its citizens over the past century, to--in certain areas of the organization--an American KGB.

10 posted on 11/15/2024 5:33:01 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: V_TWIN

When it turns out they didn’t have sufficient Probable Cause, every person involved needs to be held Criminally Liable for a multitude of charges.

Armed Home Invasion
Armed Robbery
Using a Firearm during the commission of a violent Felony
Conspiracy to all of the above

sounds like a LIFE sentence to me.


11 posted on 11/15/2024 5:35:58 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: V_TWIN
Even with Trump elected the FBI is still showing off their anti-American corruption! .....imho

Are they gonna show up at another school board meeting to arrest a woman who doesn't want her 12 year old daughter's boobs cut off????? .../sarc

12 posted on 11/15/2024 5:42:00 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Red Badger

It’s harassment for telling the truth.

Democrats hate the truth.....like sunlight to vampires.


13 posted on 11/15/2024 5:42:24 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

This is why Trump won resoundingly, you jack-booted thugs.


14 posted on 11/15/2024 5:44:09 AM PST by Allegra (Deplorable garbage)
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To: V_TWIN

National Review is a joke.


15 posted on 11/15/2024 5:55:12 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: V_TWIN

They are looking for evidence that Joe was betting on Trump winning, because Joe was doing his best to sabotage Kamala’s campaign.


16 posted on 11/15/2024 5:57:10 AM PST by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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To: Robert DeLong

Sorry this comment was meant for the post below this post, but in the case the FBI is a joke.


17 posted on 11/15/2024 5:58:11 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Allegra
This is why Trump won resoundingly, you jack-booted thugs.

These people are absolutely tone deaf. They've been getting away with this crap so long they thought it would last forever.

18 posted on 11/15/2024 6:04:04 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: V_TWIN

Was Chrissie Wray available for comment?


19 posted on 11/15/2024 6:10:16 AM PST by kawhill
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To: Ex-Con777

Are the FBI going to raid the media, Hollywood and colleges for using propaganda and lies to change the vote of the electorate?


20 posted on 11/15/2024 6:14:08 AM PST by mikelets456
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