{"id":276156,"date":"2026-05-19T04:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:40:24","slug":"alex-saab-in-miami-court-maduro-ally-may-testify-reveal-secrets-in-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276156\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Saab in Miami Court: Maduro ally may testify, reveal secrets in corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close confidant of Venezuela\u2019s ousted president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, appeared before a federal judge in Miami after his extradition to the U.S. Saab, accused of paying bribes and orchestrating corrupt government contracts, could now become a key witness against Maduro and other officials. CBS News Miami\u2019s Ivan Taylor reports live from downtown Miami with the latest courtroom updates and what\u2019s at stake for Venezuela\u2019s former leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a close confidant of Venezuela\u2019s ousted president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, appeared before a federal judge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[117863,63671,4288,41719,123,125,124,4389],"class_list":["post-276156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-alex-saab","tag-cbs-news-miami","tag-downtown-miami","tag-federal-judge","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nicolas-maduro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}