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Florida Politics reports:
A former Miami congressman who signed a $50-million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire, according to new allegations in a civil suit.
The accusations against former Congressman David Rivera come in a new filing Friday in New York federal court by opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who now control the U.S.-based affiliates of the South American nation’s state oil company.
The same contract has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Miami looking into, among other things, whether Rivera failed to register as a foreign lobbyist as required bv law.
Read the full article. There’s quite a bit more.
Rivera, a Republican, was elected to a single term in 2010.
He last appeared on JMG in 2021 when he was ordered to pay $456,000 for secretly funneling money to the Democratic primary opponent of his 2012 challenger.
Rivera is currently running for the Florida House and in the video below, he claims that the 2012 payola scandal is “fake news from the Miami Herald.”
It’s shameful that Marco Rubio refuses to denounce his best friend David Rivera, who is a crony of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime. I put bad guys behind bars. I won’t be afraid to stand up to Maduro and his cronies in the U.S. Senate. https://t.co/Ws18xZ7f9M
— Val Demings (@valdemings) August 20, 2022
A former Miami congressman who signed a $50M consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire.https://t.co/MwwxDpcmmD
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) August 20, 2022
“Rivera received only $15 million…he spent part of that on unexplained payments to a convicted drug trafficker and to a company managing yachts on behalf of a Venezuelan TV magnate wanted for arrest by U.S. authorities.”https://t.co/WgFLk2Rfq8
— Alfred Spellman (@AlfredSpellman) August 20, 2022