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Smartmatic has documented historical business links to Venezuela: it was founded by Venezuelan engineers, ran Venezuela’s 2004 referendum system, and for a time owned U.S. vendor Sequoia, prompting a ...
Smartmatic was founded in the early 2000s by Venezuelan engineers Antonio (Antonia/Antonio variant appears in sources) Mugica and Roger Piñate and is reported to be majority‑owned by the founders’ fam...
Documents and contemporary reporting show Smartmatic’s founders are Venezuelan nationals (Antonio Mugica, Roger Piñate, Alfredo Anzola) and the company won large Venezuelan contracts beginning in 2004...
Smartmatic’s origins and early contracts in Venezuela are well documented: the company was founded by Venezuelan engineers and won major Venezuelan election contracts in the early 2000s, and a Venezue...
Recent reporting and legal analyses show there is that explicitly requires Congress to approve a foreign military "base" on U.S. soil; instead, arrangements typically proceed through a mix of Defense ...
oversight of funds held in U.S.-controlled foreign accounts is a layered regime centered on —primarily for sanctions and the Treasury-led interagency process for investment-related national security m...
U.S. law governing foreign funding of media figures is fragmented: federal statutes like the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) target agents acting "at the order, request, or under the direction ...
Smartmatic’s ownership structure and corporate maneuvers in the 2000s — notably the acquisition of U.S. vendor Sequoia and complex international ties to Venezuela — directly triggered regulatory scrut...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviewed Smartmatic’s 2005 acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems amid concerns that opaque foreign ownership—particularly ties to Venez...
Federal nominees facing investments that intersect with the agencies they would oversee are governed by a mix of statutory conflict-of-interest laws, agency ethics regulations administered by the Offi...
The Smartmatic/Sequoia episode prompted a CFIUS inquiry in late 2006 after media and congressional concerns about foreign influence, but the Committee did not issue a public, detailed report of findin...
Contemporaneous claims that Smartmatic had operational and ownership ties to the Venezuelan government rested on a mix of corporate records, media reporting about early Venezuelan contracts, a 2006 U....
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) subjected Smartmatic’s 2005 acquisition of Sequoia to interagency scrutiny after congressional and media concerns about Smartmatic’s Ve...
Publicly disclosed evidence of financial links between foreign regimes and U.S. elected officials comes in several strands: documented spending by foreign governments at properties owned by officials ...
The United States can close gaps with China in critical industries by combining industrial policy (directed R&D and manufacturing incentives), supply‑chain diversification for critical minerals, tight...