{"id":416847,"date":"2026-10-02T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416847\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:28:08","slug":"former-miami-congressman-david-rivera-awaits-sentencing-in-venezuela-money-laundering-case-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416847\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Miami Congressman David Rivera awaits sentencing in Venezuela money laundering case &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Friday is sentencing day for a former U.S. representative from South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Rivera of Miami was convicted in May, for acting as a foreign agent for Nicolas Maduro\u2019s now-toppled regime in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His former colleagues took the stand against him, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was a senator at the time of the crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 61-year-old maintained that he was working as an oil consultant, not as an agent, when he landed a $50 million contract with the country\u2019s oil company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defense is asking for leniency, but prosecutors could ask for up to 27 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Friday is sentencing day for a former U.S. representative from South Florida. David Rivera of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-416847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416847","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=416847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}