George Santos has found a way to monetize being himself, which is impressive given that being himself is largely a fiction.

The disgraced former congressman, expelled from the House in 2023 after a cascade of fabrications about his biography, employment, and finances, now faces a federal investigation into whether he traded on inside knowledge about his own attendance at the State of the Union address on the prediction market platform Kalshi. Santos allegedly placed bets on an event he had unique, personal insight into — namely, whether he would show up. Federal investigators have taken notice.

The remarkable thing is not that Santos allegedly cheated a prediction market, but that a prediction market thought George Santos's whereabouts were worth predicting.

If a man bets on his own existence, is it insider trading or just the most honest thing he's ever done?

Newly released messages reveal how Labour's prince of darkness managed patrons, supplicants and enemies with surgical precision.

Six letters. Seven guesses. One word defines today.