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Venezuelan military and politician
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...
There is no credible, publicly available evidence that named U.S. senators accepted cash kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro’s government; the explosive “Venezuela list” claim traces back to social‑media po...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
The claim that Hugo Carvajal “officially released” a list naming every U.S. senator on a so‑called “Venezuela list” of politicians receiving millions of dollars is unsupported by available reporting: ...
Available sources provided by the user do not list any U.S. senators who “declared travel or hospitality from Venezuelan‑linked entities” since 2015; the material focuses on legislation, policy statem...
Venezuela is a hub where foreign cartels, Colombian guerrillas, large local gangs (“megabandas”) and alleged networks of corrupt security officials intersect; reporting identifies cocaine as the princ...
The sources provided do not produce a substantiated list of U.S. senators who accepted campaign contributions “linked to Venezuela” or to Venezuelan individuals; a widely shared allegation about a lea...
Prosecutors say Tina Peters intentionally allowed unauthorized access to Mesa County’s election equipment and preserved election-management-server data that she should not have released; she was indic...
The United States has both indicted and sanctioned multiple high‑level Venezuelan officials on drug‑related charges: the Justice Department unsealed indictments charging Nicolás Maduro and 14 current ...
There is no credible reporting in the documents provided that any sitting or former U.S. senator has been criminally charged or convicted for taking money from Venezuelan cartels; major reporting inst...
The United States has multiple high-level Venezuelan officials, including an indictment announced in 2020 that named President Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 others on narco-terrorism and drug traffickin...
There is no verified, public evidence that U.S. senators accepted direct kickbacks from Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro based on the reporting provided: claims that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hug...
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...
The U.S. Department of Justice indictments allege Nicolás Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials conspired with drug traffickers and the FARC to negotiate multi‑ton cocaine shipments, provide weapons ...
There is no verifiable evidence in the available reporting that “45 politicians” took kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro; the viral claim traces to social posts alleging a list released by ex-intelligence ...
The claim that a published "Venezuela list" names U.S. senators who received millions in kickbacks from Nicolás Maduro’s government is unsubstantiated: Snopes concluded there is no evidence that Hugo ...
The available reporting reviewed here does not show publicly disclosed U.S. law enforcement investigations specifically targeting allegations that Venezuelan officials paid U.S. politicians; mainstrea...
Publicly available U.S. court filings that feature Hugo Carvajal’s allegations center on his criminal case—his plea allocution and related court papers in the Southern District of New York—which docum...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that any U.S. senator accepted campaign contributions that are tied to Venezuelan government officials or sanctioned Venezuelan entities; investigators a...