{"id":112457,"date":"2026-01-06T06:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:57:33","slug":"cilia-flores-houston-area-attorney-representing-nicolas-maduros-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112457\/","title":{"rendered":"Cilia Flores: Houston-area attorney representing Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, is being represented by Houston-based attorney Mark Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2254194608.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; JANUARY 5: Cilia Flores is seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in  <\/p>\n<p>  Houston-area attorney Mark Donnelly representing Cilia Flores, wife of Venezeula President  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He previously served 12 years at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to its website, Donnelly&#8217;s practice in Houston focuses on white collar crimes, business litigation and real estate litigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Texas House of Representatives also enlisted Donnelly to help in the 2023 investigation and impeachment trial for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from FOX News and court records.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, is being represented by Houston-based attorney Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-112457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}