{"id":89888,"date":"2026-01-05T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:17:09","slug":"maduro-faces-first-court-hearing-in-manhattan-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89888\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro Faces First Court Hearing in Manhattan: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmk1bzttu001c3b7bzs9phmi0@published\" data-word-count=\"45\">The Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first indicted Maduro in 2020 <\/a>during Trump\u2019s first term, alleging the Venezuelan president and other top government officials of leading a drug-trafficking organization, the C\u00e1rtel de Los Soles, and used their positions to negotiate the transportation of cocaine into the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmk1bzut0001o3b7bpvd9u36w@published\" data-word-count=\"109\">Following his capture, the federal government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1422326\/dl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled a superseding indictment <\/a>that similarly accuses Maduro of working with narco-terrorist organizations, writing that the leader \u201csits atop a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking.\u201d The new indictment now levies charges against Maduro\u2019s wife, alleging that she worked alongside her husband to traffic drugs and, in one incident, \u201caccepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to broker a meeting between a large-scale drug trafficker and the director of Venezuela\u2019s National Anti-Drug Office, Nestor Reverol Torres.\u201d\u00a0 The indictment also names Nicol\u00e1s Ernesto Maduro Guerra, Maduro\u2019s son, as a defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department first indicted Maduro in 2020 during Trump\u2019s first term, alleging the Venezuelan president and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[42772,17951,75,84,83,9,24,15862,63,7165,17952],"class_list":{"0":"post-89888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-crime-and-punishment","9":"tag-liveblog","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nicolas-maduro","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-remove-interruptions","18":"tag-well-do-it-live"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89888","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=89888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}