The charges come as watchdogs and legal experts point to unprecedented corruption within the Trump administration.

The US Justice Department announced Thursday that an American special forces soldier has been arrested and charged for pocketing over $400,000 by betting, on the basis of classified information, on the timing of the Trump administration’s illegal abduction of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty soldier in the US Army who was involved in planning and executing…

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