MIAMI SCHEMING: Former GOP congressman INDICTED in plot with communist regime DECEMBER 6, 2022
TY ROSS
David Rivera, a former Republican congressman and Marco Rubio pal, is under indictment. Money laundering and being a foreign agent are apparently his jam.
The scandal-plagued Republican was arrested in Atlanta on Monday on multiple felony counts of lobbying on behalf of the Venezuelan communist regime.
The ex-legislator signed a deal worth at least $50 million for “consulting” work with the authoritarian country — work which he never completed.
Rivera is alleged to have been operating on behalf of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, acting as an intermediary to help ease U.S. sanctions against the country.
The former Florida state legislator received at least $15 million for the effort, but apparently spent part of the money on payments to a convicted drug dealer, according to the Associated Press.