Former Republican Florida Rep. David Rivera was arrested Monday on federal criminal charges of money laundering and representing a foreign government without registering. Rivera, who represented a …
Former Republican Florida Rep. David Rivera was arrested Monday on federal criminal charges of money laundering and representing a foreign government without registering.
Rivera was arrested at an Atlanta airport and had bailed himself out of jail by Monday afternoon after an appearance in federal court, according to theAccording to an eight-count indictment against Rivera and his former political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, the former congressman was involved in a conspiracy to lobby on behalf of Venezuela to improve its standing with the US, resolve legal dispute involving a Venezuelan oil company, and end U.S.
Rivera’s lobbying firm, Interamerican Consulting, was sued in 2020 by PDV USA, a Delaware-based affiliate of Citgo, a Venezuelan-owned oil company, over claims that the former lawmaker didn’t fulfill his obligations of the multimillion dollar contract he signed in 2017 for three months of “strategic consulting” work.
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