A former Miami Republican congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government has been arrested in an ongoing federal criminal investigation
Ex Congressman Arrest
Pressure has been building on Rivera for more than two years after it emerged that he received the massive contract from a U.S. affiliate of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company as President Nicolas Maduro was trying to curry favor with the White House in the early days of the Trump administration. Although Rivera’s contract was with a U.S. entity, any work he performed on behalf of Maduro’s government or Venezuelan business interests would have required him to register as a foreign lobbyist, which he did not.
As part of that effort, they also roped in Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, whose former Dallas district was home to Exxon and whoSome of the $15 million in payments that Rivera received as part of the contract were transferred to two of his associates as well as a Miami company, Interglobal Yacht Management, which PDV USA alleges was used to pay for maintenance on one of Gorrin’s superyachts.
According to the lawsuit, Rivera’s Interamerican made just $9,500 in the year before being picked, out of the blue, by Maduro loyalists without any due diligence. Rivera never met in person with anyone from Citgo or PDV USA while supposedly working on its behalf. Instead, he filed two “deficient and incoherent” progress reports of the seven he was required to submit.
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