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Then-Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., speaks in Miami, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Democrats are sharpening attacks on a former congressman who was quietly elected to the Miami GOP's executive committee despite a federal investigation into a $50 million lobbying contract with a favorite Republican target in south Florida: Venezuela's socialist government. Rivera's election to the 160-member committee, which has not been previously reported, was largely overlooked amid the results of Miami's Aug. 18 primaries. AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Ex-congressman arrested in Venezuela probe

By Joshua Goodman and Terry Spencer - Associated Press

Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, attends a House session on Jan. 8, 2009, in Tallahassee, Fla. The former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela's government not only did no apparent work, but also channeled a large chunk of the money to a yacht company on behalf of a fugitive billionaire, according to new allegations in a civil suit filed Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 in New York federal court. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)

New claims against ex-Miami congressman hired by Venezuela

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station in West Hollywood, Calif., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. hit a record $4.17 on Tuesday as the country prepares to ban Russian oil imports. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Pressure builds on Biden to repay Venezuela’s goodwill moves

By Joshua Goodman and Reginia Garcia Cano - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. The oil executives jailed in Venezuela more than three years ago on corruption charges were granted house arrest on Friday, April 30, 2021, in a gesture of goodwill toward the Biden administration as it reviews its policy toward the politically turbulent South American country. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

Venezuela gives US oilmen house arrest in gesture to Biden

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Detroit Police Department Neighborhood Police Officer Marcia Williams, right, organizes papers to deliver door-to-door with Detroit Police Department Neighborhood Police Officer Dan Robinson as they distribute gun safety information and gun locks to residents along Fenelon Street on Detroit's east side on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Residents said they feel safer in their neighborhoods with police presence and that the job of the Detroit Police Departments neighborhood police officers. (Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press via AP)

Detroit residents say neighborhood police make a difference

By JASMIN BARMORE - Associated Press

Two people killed, two others wounded in Milwaukee shooting

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CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

US sanctions Venezuelan judge for conviction of oil managers

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US again protects Citgo assets from Venezuela creditors

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CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

Family of jailed oil exec asks for Venezuelan leader’s mercy

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives, from left, Jose Angel Pereira, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. A Venezuela court has launched the trial for the six oil executives jailed well over two years after being lured to the South American nation and arrested on corruption charges, an attorney confirmed Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP, File)

Houston man jailed in Venezuela feared sick with coronavirus

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

CORRECTS PHRASE IN CAPTION TO CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW INSTEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE NOW- Members of an environmental group hang a banner that reads “CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW” on the iconic Citgo sign near Boston's Fenway Park in Kenmore Square on Monday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Boston. The group unfurled the banner Monday evening as the Red Sox began their game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway. A spokesman for the group, Extinction Rebellion Boston, told The Boston Globe that it was hoping to bring attention to environmental issues. (Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via AP)

Climate activists hang banner on Boston’s iconic Citgo sign

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FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives, from left, Jose Angel Pereira, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. The six men, five Venezuelan-Americans, and one a permanent U.S. resident were lured to Caracas for a meeting in late 2017 at the offices of the Houston-based company's parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA when masked security agents entered a boardroom and hauled them away. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP, File)

2 American oil execs jailed in Venezuela put on home arrest

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2011 file photo then Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., talks during a freedom for Cuba march in Miami. Venezuela's socialist government tried to recruit former Congressman Pete Sessions to broker a meeting with the CEO of Exxon Mobil at the same time it was secretly paying a close former House colleague $50 million to keep U.S. sanctions at bay, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Sources: Venezuela wooed Texas Republican to ease sanctions

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Video shows 6 American oil executives jailed in Venezuela

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Judge lifts stay on sale of Venezuela’s US refineries

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2019 file photo, Dennysse Vadell sits between her daughters Veronica, right, and Cristina holding a digital photograph of father and husband Tomeu who is currently jailed in Venezuela with five other executives from Houston-based Citgo, in Katy, Texas, Friday. According to a family member of one of the other arrested men, they were rounded up while under house arrest in Venezuela on Feb. 5, 2020 by SEBIN intelligence police hours after President Donald Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's chief opponent at the White House. (AP Photo/John L Mone, File, File)

Maduro accused of “disappearing” US oilmen as trial delayed

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Corpus Christi police and fire departments respond to a large fire at Interstate Highway 37 and Buddy Lawrence Drive, near the Citgo Refinery Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. (Courtney Sacco/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)

Refinery fire extinguished in south Texas, no injuries

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2019 file photo, Dennysse Vadell sits between her daughters Veronica, right, and Cristina holding a digital photograph of father and husband Tomeu who is currently jailed in Venezuela with five other executives from Houston-based Citgo, in Katy, Texas, Friday. According to a family member of one of the other arrested men, they were rounded up while under house arrest in Venezuela on Feb. 5, 2020 by SEBIN intelligence police hours after President Donald Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's chief opponent at the White House. (AP Photo/John L Mone, File, File)

Venezuela rounds up US oil executives as Guaidó visits DC

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US oil executives jailed in Venezuela given house arrest

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Venezuela’s battle to keep prized Citgo hits US courts

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press