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Fantasy sports operator bans employees from play for money after reports of worker's $350K win

NEW YORK -- Daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel says it is banning all employees from playing any daily fantasy sports for money in hopes of rebuilding trust following reports a DraftKings employee may have had access to unfairly valuable data before winning $350,000 in a FanDuel contest.

FanDuel said in a release on Wednesday there's no evidence showing the contest was compromised or that non-public information was used to gain an unfair advantage. But the New York-based company says it doesn't want to rely only on what it knows right now.

FanDuel says it has also hired former U.