{"id":176077,"date":"2026-03-26T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176077\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:09:08","slug":"live-updates-venezuelas-former-ruler-nicolas-maduro-wife-cilia-flores-appear-in-nyc-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176077\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Venezuela&#8217;s former ruler Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, wife Cilia Flores appear in NYC federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/venezuelan-political-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> and his wife Cilia Flores are expected to return to federal court in Manhattan around 11 a.m. ET Thursday for a status conference.<\/p>\n<p>This is the pair\u2019s first court appearance following their arraignments on Jan. 5, when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration-blocks-venezuela-from-paying-captured-maduros-legal-bills-amid-federal-charges \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded not guilty<\/a> to federal drug trafficking and weapons charges.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro has been charged with four counts: narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine-guns and destructive devices.<\/p>\n<p>His wife has been charged with three counts: cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine-guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine-guns and destructive devices. They face decades in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Both were captured during a U.S. military operation in Venezuela on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Maria Paronich contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are expected to return to federal court in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4022,18313,2497,607,9,11,10,12,1076],"class_list":["post-176077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}