A U.S. special forces soldier accused of using classified information about the operation to remove Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro from office to make prediction market bets on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to federal charges. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, was charged Friday with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett, who is presiding over the case, released him on a $250,000 personal recognizance bond and restricted his travel to New York, North Carolina and California. Manhattan federal prosecutors allege that Van Dyke, who is stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, bet $33,034 on the Maduro raid on Polymarket, which amounted to more than $409,000 in ill-gotten gains. On Tuesday, Van Dyke's defense attorney, Zach Intrater, said that the soldier is on leave from the military.…