David Rivera, a former Miami-Dade congressman, has been charged for the second time for not registering as a foreign agent in the United States. He already has already been indicted for such a charge, as well as conspiracy, and money laundering, in another case related to PDV USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA.
Rivera is also tied with Venezuela in this case, but this time the charges stem from failing to register as a foreign agent between 2019 and 2020 and lobbying a then-Trump administration to remove Raúl Gorrin, a wealthy Venezuelan businessman from the federal government sanctions list. He was also charged with laundering lobbying payments through his consulting firm.
