Ex-GOP Rep Indicted On Money Laundering Charges

December 19, 2024 Republicans, Scandal

NBC News reports:

Former Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., was indicted Tuesday on charges that he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act and laundered funds in order to “conceal and promote his criminal conduct,” the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

In the indictment, Rivera is accused of working “as an agent” of Raul Gorrín Belisario, a Venezuelan national who the Treasury Department said played a role in a “corruption scheme” to bribe the national treasurer of Venezuela.

Rivera “sought to lobby senior U.S. government officials” on Gorrín’s behalf, attempting to have Gorrín removed from a list he was placed on because of the alleged bribery, according to the indictment returned by the grand jury.

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Rivera, who was once Marco Rubio’s roommate, appeared here in December 2022 when he was first arrested in the Venezuela case.

In August 2022, it was reported that Rivera, who was named to a watchdog group’s “most corrupt” list during his single term in 2010, had been sued for $50 million by Venezuelan opponents of Maduro.

Before that, he 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, who was disqualified in 2022 after launching a bid for the Florida House, claims that the 2012 payola scandal is “fake news from the Miami Herald.”



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