Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
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It used to be a few tens of thousands of dollars of perfectly timed, suspicious bets. Then it became millions, the hundreds of millions, now a billion. Someone is getting greedy.