Company Background Check

Using the token (bearer) obtained in the login you can call the endpoint /depuration/background-check.

1.1. Company background check example call:

curl --location --request POST 'deeploupe-sandbox.betternfaster.com/depuration/clients' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.MQEH_DIwcJvCWfPeLuZimVTf1hpRjGTCJgWw2jFIhJE' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept-Language: es' \
--data-raw '{
    "is_async": false,
    "company": {
        "name": "PDVSA",
        "document_type_unique_description": "tax_id",
        "document_country": "VE",
        "document_number": "84842342347253501"
    }
}'

Requests sent to deeploupe-sandbox.betternfaster.com do not incur any charge and you can use the response as examples with the exact structure used. If you want to get real data, you need to change the base URL to: https://depurationgw.betternfaster.com.

Request Body Table

Key	Description	Value
is_async	Indicates if the request should be processed asynchronously or not.	Boolean (true/false)
name	Name of the company.	String
document_type_unique_description	Type of document.	String (identity_card/passport/tax_id)
document_country	Country of the document.	String (Country code in Alpha-2)
document_number	Document number.	String

1.2. Successful response example (Response HTTP Status Code: 201):

{
  "company_result": [
    {
      "name": "Google",
      "document_number": "84842342347253501",
      "document_country": "US",
      "document_type_unique_description": "tax_id",
      "result_depuration": {
        "attorney_general_result": {
          "objects": [
            {
              "img": "https://pgr.gob.do/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Fachada_Edificio_Procuraduria_PGR-960x720.jpg",
              "date": "06-11-2020",
              "link": "https://pgr.gob.do/mp-y-la-policia-nacional-atrapan-supuesto-violador-en-serie-que-aterraba-a-invivienda/",
              "title": "MP y la Policía Nacional atrapan supuesto violador en serie que aterraba a Invivienda",
              "content": " SANTO DOMINGO (República Dominicana). – El Ministerio Público logró la detención del presunto violador en serie que mantenía aterrados a moradores de Santo Domingo Este, para quien solicitará medidas de coerción en las próximas horas. Maidel Román Jiménez, alias “Deíto”, de 31 años de edad, fue capturado mediante un allanamiento realizado en la calle Estrelleta, esquina Arzobispo Portes de la Zona Colonial, tras una labor de inteligencia previa realizada en conjunto por la Unidad de Atención Integral a la Violencia de Género, Intrafamiliar y Delitos Sexuales de la Fiscalía de Santo Domingo Este y miembros de la Dirección Central de Investigaciones (DICRIM). El Ministerio Público informó que el imputado ha sido interrogado en presencia de un abogado y bajo las garantías que imponen las normas procesales y que además fue sometido a una ronda de detenidos, para que las víctimas lo identificaran. Hasta el momento el órgano acusador cuenta con cuatro denuncias e informa que en las próximas horas le conocerá medidas de coerción. De la misma forma, se presume que Maidel Román Jiménez también se dedicaba a otros delitos, entre ellos el robo de celulares. En ese sentido, las autoridades indicaron que encontraron una moto que presuntamente utilizaba para hacer sus fechorías, un casco de color negro, seis teléfonos celulares, además de tres relojes inteligentes marca Apple y una motocicleta sin placa. Igualmente, durante las pesquisas se encontraron ropas y calzados que coinciden con los videos recolectados en las redes sociales, que identifican al imputado. De la misma forma, fue arrestado Jhonatan Soñé, alias “El Chino”, quien recibía los celulares robados para revenderlos.   Send this to a friend"
            },
            {
              "img": "https://pgr.gob.do/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fiscalia-Santiago.jpg",
              "date": "13-03-2018",
              "link": "https://pgr.gob.do/dictan-20-anos-de-prision-a-hombre-acusado-de-cometer-robo-agravado-en-residencia-de-santiago/",
              "title": "Dictan 20 años de prisión a hombre acusado de cometer robo agravado en residencia de Santiago",
              "content": "SANTIAGO.- Una sentencia de 20 años de prisión le fue impuesta a un hombre que fue acusado por el Ministerio Público de agredir físicamente a otro en momentos en que lo sorprendió robando en su residencia el pasado año. Los jueces del Tercer Tribunal Colegiado de Santiago dictaron la sentencia en contra de Randy Radhamés Rodríguez Gutiérrez, quien fue hallado culpable del delito de robo agravado en perjuicio de Rafael Antonio Jacquez Jiménez. El tribunal, presidido por el juez José Rafael De Asís, acogió la teoría acusatoria del Ministerio Público, presentada por la fiscal Luz Esther Liz, quien demostró que en este caso Rodríguez Gutiérrez utilizó la violencia para cometer el robo. Mediante una nota de prensa del Ministerio Público, se informó que la Procuraduría Fiscal de Santiago demostró que Rodríguez Gutiérrez violó los artículos 379 y 382 del Código Penal Dominicano. El órgano persecutor dijo que la fiscalía para sustentar la acusación de este caso presentó dentro las pruebas el acta de registro de personas con respecto al procesado, así como varias pruebas testimoniales y un certificado médico legal de la fractura del brazo derecho que le fue emitido a la víctima, con la cual se demostró el uso de la violencia. El expediente acusatorio establece con relación al hecho, que éste se produjo alrededor de las 12:30 de la noche del 15 de enero del pasado año. Expresa que la víctima llegó a su residencia y que sorprendió en el interior de la misma al hoy condenado, quien tras ser descubierto arremetió a golpes en su contra y le fracturó el brazo derecho. Indica que posteriormente Rodríguez Gutiérrez sustrajo a Jacquez Jiménez una tableta electrónica marca APPLE, así como también un celular Samsung y un taladro marca Makita, entre otros objetos, los cuales luego fueron recuperados. El Ministerio Público sostuvo que esta sentencia se obtiene a poco más de un año de haber ocurrido el hecho, destacando en ese sentido, que implementan medidas orientadas a lograr respuestas rápidas y efectivas contra los delitos.   Send this to a friend"
            }
          ]
        },
        "free_diary_result": {
          "objects": [
            {
              "id": "1962168",
              "date": "07/21/2022 16:47:00",
              "score": 9.447411,
              "title": "Sociedad Dominicana de Pediatría celebra su 75 aniversario, Durante el evento se exaltaron a maestros , los pediatras:  Google None None None, Altagracia Esperanza Esquea Guerrero, Acacia Celenia Mercedes Medrano y Juan de Jesús Ramírez Tavares",
              "content": "A propósito de “la Semana del Pediatra” y la conmemoración de su 75 aniversario, la Sociedad Dominicana de Pediatría exaltó a “Maestros de la Pediatría”, por sus aportes&nbsp; a la investigación &nbsp;en revistas científicas, la formación a otros especialistas y servicio de larga trayectoria a pacientes, expresó la &nbsp;Luz Herrera, presidenta de la sociedad médica especializada.\r\nEste galardón es el máximo mérito que otorgan las sociedades médicas a sus miembos más destacados. En esta oportunidad, lo ocupan los doctores: Google None None None, Altagracia Esperanza Esquea Guerrero, Acacia Celenia Mercedes Medrano y Juan de Jesús Ramírez Tavares.\r\n“Estos cuatro pediatras que son exaltados a ‘Maestros’ es un reconocimiento que se hace cada 5 años a aquellos especialistas que han hecho un gran aporte a la pediatría.&nbsp; Dentro de los estatutos y criterios de selección se valoran sus investigaciones realizadas y tiempo docente en pregrado y postgrado” explicó Herrera.\r\nCada 20 de julio se conmemora a nivel nacional el “Día del Pediatra”, por lo que esta organización dedica toda la semana a varios encuentros formativos y de reconocimiento, para resaltar la labor y recorrido ininterrumpido de especialistas consagrados en el oficio, así como impulsar el proceso de educación continua para los doctores y orientación a la familia.\r\nCon más de 1,950 miembros activos y 17 filiales, esta entidad científica apela la continua mejora de la calidad de atención en salud para los niños y las niñas, &nbsp;así como mejores condiciones de trabajo para los especialistas y el empuje al desarrollo de investigaciones sobre las afecciones de salud infantil en el país.\r\nOtros de los objetivos de la gestion actual es mejora de políticas públicas para fortalecer la salud infantil y disminuir su mortalidad, así como impulsar la aprobación de la Ley de Vacunas y la Ley de Tamizaje Neonatal, pendientes desde el 2021 por el Poder Legistalitivo.",
              "img_url": "https://s3.betternfaster.com/depuration-img/pediatria-4cf7d918.jpg",
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            },
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              "date": "01/02/2020 22:15:00",
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              "title": "Identifican a primos que mataron dos parientes e hirieron a otro en Santiago, Los fallecidos son Pablo de Jesús Pérez y Aneudy de Jesús Pérez Durán ",
              "content": "La Policía investiga las circunstancias en que dos primos fueron ultimados y otro pariente resultó herido a machetazos este miércoles, en medio de una disputa entre familiares en el sector Los Pérez de Gurabo, al norte de Santiago. Los muertos fueron identificados como Pablo de Jesús Pérez de 53 años de edad y Aneudy de Jesús Pérez Durán de 37 años, quienes murieron impactados a balazos; en tanto que Wellington Rafael Pérez Lizardo, de 32 años, hermano de uno de los occisos, resultó herido a machetazos y de perdigones. La tragedia habría ocurrido cuando un pariente de los tres antes citados, que no ha sido identificado, le propinó una bofetada a un hijastro del herido, y éste, junto a su hermano, fue al sector Los Pérez a reclamar por la agresión al menor, desatándose una discusión que degeneró en un tiroteo. La agresión al menor la habría detonado un incidente anterior en que una botella de ron se rompió. La Policía identificó como Google None None None, alias Negrito; Leodoro Antonio Pérez Durán, alias Lolo; Miguel Diloné Pérez Durán, alias Nonei, además a Franklin Antonio Pérez Durán y Neiky Rafael Pérez Durán, a los que presuntamente cometieron los asesinatos. La Policía llamó a los identificados a que se entreguen por la vía que mejor consideren. Parientes de los occisos y el herido, pidieron justicia por los crímenes. Rosa Altagracia Durán, allegada a la familia, lamentó que un hecho como este haya desencadenado en una tragedia.",
              "img_url": "https://s3.betternfaster.com/depuration-img/camioneta-de-pn-copy_12941879_20200102182138.jpg",
              "info_link": "https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/justicia/2020/01/02/Identifican-a-primos-que-mataron-dos-parientes-e-hirieron-a-otro-en-Santiago/1095783"
            }
          ]
        },
        "ofac_result": {
          "objects": [
            {
              "name": "Google None None None",
              "addres": " ",
              "program": "RUSSIA-EO14024",
              "info_link": "https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=37061"
            },
            {
              "name": "Google None None None",
              "addres": " ",
              "program": "IFSR; IRGC; SDGT",
              "info_link": "https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=28695"
            }
          ]
        },
        "dncd_result": {
          "objects": [
            {
              "img": "https://s3.betternfaster.com/depuration-img/c17033ddd55ecdf5f16c90daa55576ba_L.jpg",
              "date": "2023-05-26",
              "lead": "Santo Domingo.- La Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD) com...",
              "link": "https://dncd.gob.do/index.php/noticias1/noticias/item/1714",
              "score": 30.70311,
              "title": "ALIJO CONFISCADO EN SPM RESULTÓ POSITIVO A COCAÍNA",
              "content": "Santo Domingo.- La Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD) comunicó este viernes que los 531 paquetes ocupados en operación conjunta con la Armada de República Dominicana, frente a las costas de San Pedro de Macorís, resultaron positivo a sustancias controladas.El Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (INACIF) a través de los análisis correspondientes, determinó que la sustancia, que fue incautada en el interior de una lancha rápida, es cocaína y tuvo un peso total de 542. 04 kilogramos.Por el caso hay dos dominicanos detenidos, mientras el Ministerio Público y la DNCD siguen trabajando en el proceso investigativo para arrestar a otros posibles implicados.Dirección de Comunicaciones, DNCD.-",
              "content_html": "<p>Santo Domingo.- La Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD) comunicó <strong>es</strong><strong>te</strong> viern<strong>es</strong> que los 531 paquet<strong>es</strong> ocupados en operación conjunta con la Armada de República Dominicana, fren<strong>te</strong> a las costas de San Pedro de Macorís, r<strong>es</strong>ultaron positivo a sustancias controladas.El Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forens<strong>es</strong> (INACIF) a través de los análisis corr<strong>es</strong>pondient<strong>es</strong>, de<strong>te</strong>rminó que la sustancia, que fue incautada en el in<strong>te</strong>rior de una lancha rápida, <strong>es</strong> cocaína y tuvo un p<strong>es</strong>o total de 542. 04 kilogramos.Por el caso hay dos dominicanos de<strong>te</strong>nidos, mientras el Minis<strong>te</strong>rio Público y la DNCD siguen trabajando en el proc<strong>es</strong>o inv<strong>es</strong>tigativo para arr<strong>es</strong>tar a otros posibl<strong>es</strong> implicados.Dirección de Comunicacion<strong>es</strong>, DNCD.-</p>"
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              "lead": "Santo Domingo.- En la continuación del reforzamiento en la lucha cont...",
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              "score": 24.1399,
              "title": "SIN DESCANSO: INTERCEPTAN LANCHA CON 531 PAQUETES PRESUMIBLEMENTE COCAÍNA EN SPM; APRESAN DOS",
              "content": "Santo Domingo.- En la continuación del reforzamiento en la lucha contra el narcotráfico, la Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD), con apoyo de la Armada de República Dominicana, la Fuerza Aérea, coordinados por agencias de Inteligencia del Estado y miembros del Ministerio Público, confiscaron un cargamento de 531 paquetes presumiblemente cocaína, en una operación de interdicción conjunta, desarrollada frente a las costas de la provincia San Pedro de Macorís.Las Fuerzas de seguridad de República Dominicana, tras recibir informes de inteligencia, de que varios individuos a bordo de una lancha rápida (tipo Go Fast), procedente de Sudamérica, pretendían introducir un cargamento de presuntas sustancias controladas, montaron un amplio operativo por aire, mar y tierra.Tras varias horas de intensa persecución, lograron interceptar a varias millas náuticas al sureste de las costas de la referida provincia, una embarcación de unos 23 pies de eslora, en cuyo interior se ocuparon 21 sacos, con los 531 paquetes de la sustancia.En el proceso de interdicción, se apresaron a dos dominicanos, quienes al notar la presencia de las autoridades, realizaron maniobras evasivas para tratar de burlar la persecución, sin lograr su objetivo.En la operación se ocupó además un teléfono celular, 10 garrafones de combustibles, dos motores fuera de borda de 75 y 40 caballos de fuerza respectivamente, una neverita con agua y comestibles, una lona, entre otras evidencias.El Ministerio Público y la DNCD profundizan las investigaciones, para determinar si hay otros implicados en esta red de narcotráfico, cuyo modo de operación, es traer en lanchas rápidas desde Sudamérica, grandes cantidades de sustancias narcóticas a territorio dominicano.“Los constantes golpes a estas estructuras criminales evidencia el fiel compromiso de las autoridades dominicanas en seguir atacando con firmeza y determinación el narcotráfico y el crimen organizado”La DNCD destaca el apoyo de las Fuerzas Armadas, la Procuraduría y otros organismos oficiales, cooperación que ha sido clave en el éxito de estas operaciones de interdicción en contra del tráfico ilícito de drogas.Los detenidos, quienes serán identificados oportunamente, están en poder del Ministerio Público de San Pedro de Macoris, a quienes se le conocerán medidas de coerción en las próximas horas por violación a la ley 50-88.Los 531 paquetes, incautados en esta nueva operación, fueron enviados bajo Cadena de Custodia al Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (INACIF) para los fines correspondientes.INACIF: CARGAMENTO OCUPADO EN CAUCEDO ES COCAÍNALa Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD) informó que los 728 paquetes, ocupados mediante operación conjunta, en el Puerto Multimodal Caucedo, resultaron positivo a sustancias controladas.De acuerdo al análisis del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Forenses (INACIF) el cargamento camuflado en un contenedor en productos de limpieza, resultó ser cocaína y tuvo un peso total de 749.14 kilogramos.El Ministerio Público y la DNCD siguen ampliando las investigaciones en torno al frustrado envío del cargamento de cocaína a Bélgica.Dirección de Comunicaciones, DNCD.-",
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          ]
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              "age": "58",
              "name": "Google None None None",
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              "address": "1100 SW WASHINGTON, PEORIA, IL  61602, N/A, Employment, , , , + MORE",
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              "date": "2022-12-20 23:38:59",
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              "intro": "Google None None None last served as a congressman in 2012, but he sounded like a politician as he denied U.S. charges accusing him of working for the Venezuelan government without registering as a foreign agent.",
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              "title": "Ex-congressman Google None None None says charges of being a Venezuelan agent ‘completely false’",
              "content": "Google None None None may no longer be an elected politician, but he sounded like one when he emerged Tuesday from his first federal court appearance in Miami on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent for the Venezuelan government. Rivera, a Republican who served one term as a Miami congressman a decade ago, is accused of accepting $20 million in consulting fees from a U.S. subsidiary of the Venezuelan government’s state-owned oil company that federal prosecutors say was actually a fig leaf for lobbying on behalf of Venezuela and its authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. “Anybody that knows me knows that what the government is alleging is completely false and completely absurd,” Rivera said on the steps of the federal courthouse. “I’ve spent my entire adult life fighting for freedom and democracy not only in Cuba but for many years in Venezuela as well. And we look forward to proving that in court.” Rivera was arrested Dec. 5 on federal criminal charges stemming from his $50 million consulting contract with that country’s U.S. oil subsidiary that supposedly aimed to improve its tarnished image in the United States. Rivera, a former player in South Florida politics, and his former Miami-Dade political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, were charged by an indictment accusing them of conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, failing to register as foreign agents as part of their consulting work for Venezuela’s oil subsidiary, PDV USA, and money laundering. In Miami federal court on Tuesday, Rivera’s arraignment was postponed until Jan. 23 as he decides on hiring his permanent defense lawyers to represent him. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman granted the same bond that he had received in federal court in Atlanta, where he was arrested in early December. Rivera was granted a $200,000 bond co-signed by his wife and sister that imposes a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., and allows him to travel in South Florida, Orlando, Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, where he lives with his wife and children. His bond requires him and his wife to surrender their passports; he also cannot use alcohol under any circumstances and controlled substances without a prescription, Goodman said. The allegations In the past, Rivera has defended his actions by saying he was really working for the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company — not directly as a consultant for the Venezuelan government in the United States. But the indictment filed by prosecutor Harold Schimkat in Miami says Rivera and Nuhfer were actually lobbying for the Venezuelan government in an effort to normalize relations between the socialist South American country and the United States. According to the indictment, Rivera and Nuhfer met with an unidentified U.S. senator in Washington, D.C., to discuss the normalization plan in 2017, but to no avail because Maduro’s government ultimately would not make a commitment to such a deal. Sources familiar with the case say Rivera and Nuhfer met with Sen. Marco Rubio, who purchased a home with Rivera when the two were serving in Florida’s House of Representatives. The Miami Republican is not identified in the indictment by name, but has confirmed that he met with Rivera and discussed Maduro. Additionally, the indictment says, Rivera collaborated with a wealthy Venezuelan businessman, Raul Gorrin, who owned a home in Miami, to arrange a meeting between Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas and Maduro in Caracas. On April 2, 2018, the indictment says, Rivera, Gorrin and Sessions met with Maduro and other Venezuelan politicians to discuss normalizing relations between the United States and Venezuela. As part of the meeting, Sessions agreed to carry a letter with that proposal from Maduro to President Donald Trump, but their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. The indictment accuses Rivera and Nuhfer of conspiring to “unlawfully enrich themselves by engaging in political activities in the United States on behalf of the Government of Venezuela ... in an effort to influence United States foreign policy toward Venezuela.” It further accuses them of trying “to conceal these efforts by failing to register under [federal law] as agents of the Government of Venezuela and by creating the false appearance that they were providing consulting services to PDV USA.“ But Rivera’s temporary defense lawyers, Jeffrey Feldman and Richard Klugh, strongly denied those allegations outside the federal court in Miami on Tuesday. “This case rests on one central allegation, that allegation is that [former] Congressman Google None None None was an agent for the Venezuelan government and Nicolás Maduro,” Feldman said after the court hearing. “There is not a shred of truth, not one shred of truth, to that allegation. Google None None None is innocent.” When asked by a Miami Herald reporter why he had not simply registered as a foreign agent when his business, Interamerican Consulting, landed the $50 million lobbying contract with PDV USA in 2017, Rivera insisted that he had already answered the question, though he hadn’t. Then his defense attorneys chimed in. “There is no duty to register [with the U.S. government] if he’s not an agent of the Venezuelan government or Nicolás Maduro,” Feldman said. The Money As Venezuela’s economy was crashing in 2017, the country’s state-owned oil company hired Rivera for a costly public relations campaign to prop up the Venezuelan firm in the United States and to prevent U.S. sanctions. In just a few months, Interamerican Consulting collected $20 million from Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary, PDV USA. But its $50 million contract abruptly ended without further payment when Rivera was accused of doing little work, according to a lawsuit filed in New York by PDV USA well before the federal indictment in Miami. Court documents in both the civil and federal cases revealed that Rivera diverted more than half of his PDV USA income — $13 million — to three subcontractors in Miami who supposedly provided “international strategic consulting services” for the Venezuelan firm. READ MORE: Rivera diverted $13 million from Venezuelan deal to convicted drug trafficker, others One of Rivera’s subcontractors who received millions from his Venezuelan deal was a Miami real estate developer, Hugo Perera, who was convicted in one of South Florida’s biggest drug-trafficking cases, the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have learned from court records and sources familiar with Perera’s history. Millions also were diverted by Rivera to Miami companies controlled by Nuhfer and Gorrin, according to court records. Rivera and Nuhfer communicated with Perera and Gorrin about the consulting contract with PDV USA through encrypted text messages, according to the indictment. Gorrin, who was indicted in a separate foreign corruption and money-laundering case in 2018, is not mentioned by name in the new indictment. According to sources familiar with the case, both Perera and Gorrin, who at the time had homes on exclusive Fisher Island in Miami, helped Rivera land the public relations contract with the Venezuelan government and its national-oil company’s subsidiary, PDV USA. Perera introduced Gorrin to Rivera, and Gorrin then introduced Rivera to high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including foreign minister Delcy Eloina Rodriguez Gomez. She was also an executive at PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company. But in the end, Rivera and his associates ultimately failed to prevent U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and its oil interests.",
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              "content_html": "<p>Google None None None may no longer be an elected politician, but he sounded like one when he emerged Tuesday from his first federal court appearance in Miami on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent for the Venezuelan government.</p><p>Rivera, a Republican who served one term as a Miami congressman a decade ago, is accused of accepting $20 million in consulting fees from a U.S. subsidiary of the Venezuelan government’s state-owned oil company that federal prosecutors say was actually a fig leaf for lobbying on behalf of Venezuela and its authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro.</p><p>“Anybody that knows me knows that what the government is alleging is completely false and completely absurd,” Rivera said on the steps of the federal courthouse. “I’ve spent my entire adult life fighting for freedom and democracy not only in Cuba but for many years in Venezuela as well. And we look forward to proving that in court.” </p><p><a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/article269634466.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >Rivera was arrested Dec. 5 on federal criminal charges</a> stemming from his $50 million consulting contract with that country’s U.S. oil subsidiary that supposedly aimed to improve its tarnished image in the United States.</p><p>Rivera, a former player in South Florida politics, and his former Miami-Dade political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, were charged by an indictment accusing them of conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, <a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article242736076.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >failing to register as foreign agents as part of their consulting work for Venezuela’s oil subsidiary, PDV USA</a>, and money laundering.</p><p>In Miami federal court on Tuesday, Rivera’s arraignment was postponed until Jan. 23 as he decides on hiring his permanent defense lawyers to represent him. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman granted the same bond that he had received in federal court in Atlanta, where he was arrested in early December. Rivera was granted a $200,000 bond co-signed by his wife and sister that imposes a curfew between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., and allows him to travel in South Florida, Orlando, Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, where he lives with his wife and children. </p><p>His bond requires him and his wife to surrender their passports; he also cannot use alcohol under any circumstances and controlled substances without a prescription, Goodman said.</p><h3>The allegations</h3><p>In the past, Rivera has defended his actions by saying he was really working for the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company — not directly as a consultant for the Venezuelan government in the United States. But the indictment filed by prosecutor Harold Schimkat in Miami says Rivera and Nuhfer were actually lobbying for the Venezuelan government in an effort to normalize relations between the socialist South American country and the United States.</p><p>According to the indictment, Rivera and Nuhfer met with an unidentified U.S. senator in Washington, D.C., to discuss the normalization plan in 2017, but to no avail because Maduro’s government ultimately would not make a commitment to such a deal. Sources familiar with the case say Rivera and Nuhfer met with Sen. Marco Rubio, who <a href= https://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/marco-rubios-house-of-horrors-116075  target= _blank  rel= Follow >purchased a home with Rivera</a> when the two were serving in Florida’s House of Representatives. The Miami Republican is not identified in the indictment by name,<b> </b>but <a href= https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/former-miami-congressman-riveras-indictment-underscores-sen-rubio-connection/  target= _blank  rel= Follow >has confirmed</a> that he met with Rivera and discussed Maduro.</p><p>Additionally, the indictment says, Rivera collaborated with a wealthy Venezuelan businessman, Raul Gorrin, who owned a home in Miami, to arrange a meeting between Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas and Maduro in Caracas. On April 2, 2018, the indictment says, Rivera, Gorrin and Sessions met with Maduro and other Venezuelan politicians to discuss normalizing relations between the United States and Venezuela. As part of the meeting, Sessions agreed to carry a letter with that proposal from Maduro to President Donald Trump, but their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. </p><p>The indictment accuses Rivera and Nuhfer of conspiring to “unlawfully enrich themselves by engaging in political activities in the United States on behalf of the Government of Venezuela ... in an effort to influence United States foreign policy toward Venezuela.” It further accuses them of trying “to conceal these efforts by failing to register under [federal law] as agents of the Government of Venezuela and by creating the false appearance that they were providing consulting services to PDV USA.“</p><p>But Rivera’s temporary defense lawyers, Jeffrey Feldman and Richard Klugh, strongly denied those allegations outside the federal court in Miami on Tuesday.</p><p>“This case rests on one central allegation, that allegation is that [former] Congressman Google None None None was an agent for the Venezuelan government and Nicolás Maduro,” Feldman said after the court hearing. “There is not a shred of truth, not one shred of truth, to that allegation. Google None None None is innocent.”</p><p>When asked by a Miami Herald reporter why he had not simply registered as a foreign agent when his business, Interamerican Consulting, landed the $50 million lobbying contract with PDV USA in 2017, Rivera insisted that he had already answered the question, though he hadn’t. Then his defense attorneys chimed in.</p><p>“There is no duty to register [with the U.S. government] if he’s not an agent of the Venezuelan government or Nicolás Maduro,” Feldman said.</p><p><!-- %asset:270256497; alt= undefined % --></p><h3>The Money</h3><p>As Venezuela’s economy was crashing in 2017, <a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article260644607.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >the country’s state-owned oil company hired Rivera for a costly public relations</a> campaign to prop up the Venezuelan firm in the United States and to prevent U.S. sanctions. In just a few months, Interamerican Consulting collected $20 million from Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary, PDV USA. But its $50 million contract abruptly ended without further payment when Rivera was accused of doing little work, according to a lawsuit filed in New York by PDV USA well before the federal indictment in Miami.</p><p>Court documents in both the civil and federal cases revealed that Rivera diverted more than half of his PDV USA income — $13 million — to three subcontractors in Miami who supposedly provided “international strategic consulting services” for the Venezuelan firm.</p><p><b><a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article260644607.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >READ MORE: Rivera diverted $13 million from Venezuelan deal to convicted drug trafficker, others</a></b></p><p>One of Rivera’s subcontractors who received millions from his Venezuelan deal was a Miami real estate developer, Hugo Perera, who was convicted in one of South Florida’s biggest drug-trafficking cases, the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have learned from court records and sources familiar with Perera’s history. Millions also were diverted by Rivera to Miami companies controlled by Nuhfer and Gorrin, according to court records.</p><p>Rivera and Nuhfer communicated with Perera and Gorrin about the consulting contract with PDV USA through encrypted text messages, according to the indictment.</p><p>Gorrin, who was indicted in a separate foreign corruption and money-laundering case in 2018, is not mentioned by name in the new indictment.</p><p>According to sources familiar with the case, both Perera and Gorrin, who at the time had homes on exclusive Fisher Island in Miami, helped Rivera land the public relations contract with the Venezuelan government and its national-oil company’s subsidiary, PDV USA. Perera introduced Gorrin to Rivera, and Gorrin then introduced Rivera to high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including foreign minister Delcy Eloina Rodriguez Gomez. She was also an executive at PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company.</p><p>But in the end, Rivera and his associates ultimately failed to prevent U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and its oil interests.</p>"
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              "date": "2022-12-05 21:58:26",
              "name": "PDV",
              "intro": "Google None None None, a former congressman from Miami, has been charged by an indictment related to his $50 million consulting contract with the Venezuelan government.",
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              "title": "Ex-U.S. Rep. Google None None None arrested. Charges tied to $50 million Venezuela consulting deal",
              "content": "Former Miami Congressman Google None None None was arrested Monday on federal criminal charges, including failing to register as a foreign agent for Venezuela, stemming from his $50 million consulting contract with the country’s oil company that supposedly aimed to improve its tarnished image in the United States. Rivera, a once-influential player in South Florida politics, and his former Miami-Dade political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, have been charged by an indictment accusing them of conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, failing to register as foreign agents as part of their consulting work for Venezuela’s oil subsidiary, PDV USA, and money laundering. Rivera had his first federal court appearance in Atlanta, where he had been living and was arrested Monday afternoon. But he is expected to be transferred to Miami this week to face charges that were returned on Nov. 16 by a federal grand jury in Miami, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida. The Miami Herald could not reach Rivera or his defense attorney late Monday, but the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Marshals Service said Rivera had bailed out of jail that afternoon after making an initial appearance in Atlanta federal court. On Tuesday, Rivera’s defense attorney, Jeffrey Feldman, told the Miami Herald that he did not want to comment about the new indictment charging his client with being an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela. Nuhfer’s defense attorney, Philip Reizenstein, also declined to comment. She is expected to surrender and have her first appearance in Miami federal court on Thursday. In the past, Rivera has defended his actions by saying he was really working for the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company — not directly as a consultant for the Venezuelan government in the United States. But the indictment filed in Miami says Rivera and Nuhfer were actually lobbying for the Venezuelan government in an effort to normalize relations between the South American country and the United States, prevent more economic sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro’s government and resolve a legal dispute between an unnamed U.S. oil company and Venezuela. According to the indictment, Rivera and Nuhfer met with an unidentified U.S. senator in Washington, D.C., to discuss the normalization plan in 2017, but to no avail because Maduro’s government ultimately would not make a commitment to such a deal. Sources familiar with the case say Rivera and Nuhfer met with Sen. Marco Rubio, though the Miami Republican is not identified in the indictment by name. Additionally, the indictment says, Rivera collaborated with a wealthy Venezuelan businessman, Raul Gorrin, who owned a home in Miami, to arrange a meeting between Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas and President Maduro in Caracas. On April 2, 2018, the indictment says, Rivera, Gorrin and Sessions met with Maduro and other Venezuelan politicians to discuss normalizing relations between the United States and Venezuela. As part of the meeting, Sessions agreed to carry a letter with that proposal from Maduro to President Donald Trump, but their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. The indictment accuses Rivera and Nuhfer of conspiring to “unlawfully enrich themselves by engaging in political activities in the United States on behalf of the Government of Venezuela ... in an effort to influence United States foreign policy toward Venezuela.” It further accuses them of trying “to conceal these efforts by failing to register under [federal law] as agents of the Government of Venezuela and by creating the false appearance that they were providing consulting services to PDV USA.“ As Venezuela’s economy was crashing in 2017, the country’s state-owned oil company hired Rivera for a costly public relations campaign to prop up the Venezuelan firm in the United States and to prevent U.S. sanctions. In just a few months, Rivera’s business, Interamerican Consulting, collected $20 million from Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary, PDV USA, but its $50 million contract with the former politician abruptly ended when he was accused of doing little work, according to a lawsuit in New York that was filed before the federal indictment in Miami. Court documents in both the civil and federal case revealed that Rivera diverted more than half of his PDV USA income — $13 million — to three subcontractors in Miami who supposedly provided “international strategic consulting services” for the Venezuelan firm. READ MORE: Rivera diverted $13 million from Venezuelan deal to convicted drug trafficker, others One of Rivera’s subcontractors who received millions from his Venezuelan deal was a Miami real estate developer, Hugo Perera, who was convicted in one of South Florida’s biggest drug-trafficking cases, the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have learned from court records and sources familiar with Perera’s history. Perera is not named as a defendant in the indictment filed against Rivera and Nuhfer. Perera’s main company, PG & Associates, which develops residential projects in Miami, and his other firm, Krome Agronomics, which sells fertilizer products, received a total of $4.85 million from Rivera’s consulting firm as part of his PDV USA contract, civil court records show. Nuhfer’s Miami business, Communication Solutions, Inc., received a total of $4.5 million from Rivera’s firm, according to civil court records. Lastly, a Miami company, Interglobal Yacht Management, LLC, which provided maintenance services for Venezuelan businessman Gorrin’s yacht, received a total of $3.75 million from Rivera’s firm. Rivera and Nuhfer communicated with Perera and Gorrin about the consulting contract with PDV USA through encrypted text messages, according to the indictment. But it was not clear from the civil and criminal court records whether the recipients of Rivera’s payments — including Nuhfer, Perera and Gorrin — ever did any work as part of his consulting firm’s contract with PDV USA. Gorrin, who was indicted in a separate foreign corruption and money-laundering case in 2018, is also not mentioned by name in the new indictment. According to sources familiar with the case, both Perera and Gorrin, who at the time had homes on exclusive Fisher Island in Miami, helped Rivera land the public relations contract with the Venezuelan government and its national-oil company’s subsidiary, PDV USA. Perera introduced Gorrin to Rivera, and Gorrin then introduced Rivera to high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including foreign minister Delcy Eloina Rodriguez Gomez. She was also an executive at PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company. But in the end, Rivera and his associates ultimately failed to prevent U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and its oil interests. Between March 2017 and mid-April 2017, Rivera’s business, Interamerican Consulting, received three installment payments totaling $15 million from PDV USA, according to the indictment. “Rivera divided these funds in approximately equal amounts with Esther Nuhfer, Foreign Individual 1, and Individual 1,” says the indictment filed by prosecutor Harry Schimkat. “Over time, Rivera, Nuhfer, Foreign Individual 1 and Individual 1 used their portions of these funds to pay for various personal and business expenses, such as the purchase of real estate, payment of expenses for luxury yachts, and, in Rivera’s case, contributions to his campaign for state office [in 2018],” according to the indictment. Sources familiar with the FBI-led case say “Foreign Individual 1” is Gorrin, who owns a TV station in Caracas and was close to Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, and “Individual 1” is Perera, the Miami developer. Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary only became aware of Rivera’s diversion of payments after it sued his company, Interamerican Consulting, in 2020; it is battling with Rivera and his firm’s lawyers over obtaining key evidence from the former politician. PDV USA, based in New York and the parent company of Houston-based Citgo, is seeking to recover payments totaling $20 million from Rivera’s company in a breach-of-contract suit stemming from their original $50 million agreement signed in 2017, court records show. Rivera’s firm has filed a counterclaim seeking full payment of the contract. Rivera, who never registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. government to do consulting work for the Venezuelan firm, had been under scrutiny in the parallel criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Miami for several years, according to sources familiar with the probe. But no one, including Rivera, had been charged in connection with his contract with PDV USA — until now. Rivera, a one-term Cuban American congressman and former Florida legislator from Miami whose career has been dogged by ethics and campaign-finance violation complaints, once tried to expel a Venezuelan consul in Miami. He is also a close friend of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, an arch critic of Maduro’s administration in Venezuela. Rivera and Rubio, both Republicans, shared a house in Tallahassee when they were both in the state Legislature. The new indictment points out that Rivera met in 2017 with “U.S. Senator 1” on two occasions in Washington, D.C., the first at a private residence and the second at a hotel, to discuss the proposed normalization of relations between Venezuela and the United States. Although he’s not identified in the indictment, the Herald has learned that U.S. Senator 1 is Rubio. At the first meeting, according to the indictment, Rivera told Rubio that Gorrin “had persuaded President Maduro to accept a deal whereby he would hold free and fair elections in Venezuela.” The second meeting involved Rivera, Nuhfer, Rubio, Gorrin and an unnamed Venezuelan politician by phone, the indictment says. “By mid-July 2017, however, [Gorrin] informed Rivera, Nuhfer, and [Perera] that President Maduro had refused to agree to hold free and fair elections in Venezuela in exchange for reconciliation with the United States,” the indictment says. Reached on Tuesday, a spokesman for Rubio’s office said Rivera had told the senator that Maduro’s close associate, Gorrin, wanted to deliver a letter to President Trump “outlining an agreement to hold free and fair elections and exit power.” But when Gorrin met briefly with Rubio in Washington that July, he “produced no such letter and failed to even mention the possibility of any such deal.” Rubio’s spokesman also echoed what was noted by prosecutors in the new indictment: Rivera and his associates “never disclosed to any of the United States officials who they met that they were lobbying on behalf of the Government of Venezuela.” El Nuevo Herald staff writer Antonio Maria Delgado contributed to this story.",
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              "content_html": "<p>Former Miami Congressman Google None None None was arrested Monday on federal criminal charges, including failing to register as a foreign agent for Venezuela,<b> </b>stemming from his $50 million consulting contract with the country’s oil company that supposedly aimed to improve its tarnished image in the United States.</p><p>Rivera, a once-influential player in South Florida politics, and his former Miami-Dade political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, have been charged by an indictment accusing them of conspiring to commit offenses against the United States, <a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article242736076.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >failing to register as foreign agents as part of their consulting work for Venezuela’s oil subsidiary, PDV USA</a>, and money laundering.</p><p>Rivera had his first federal court appearance in Atlanta, where he had been living and was arrested Monday afternoon. But he is expected to be transferred to Miami this week to face charges that were returned on Nov. 16 by a federal grand jury in Miami, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida.</p><p>The Miami Herald could not reach Rivera or his defense attorney late Monday, but the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Marshals Service said Rivera had bailed out of jail that afternoon after making an initial appearance in Atlanta federal court. On Tuesday, Rivera’s defense attorney, Jeffrey Feldman, told the Miami Herald that he did not want to comment about the new indictment charging his client with being an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela.</p><p>Nuhfer’s defense attorney, Philip Reizenstein, also declined to comment. She is expected to surrender and have her first appearance in Miami federal court on Thursday.</p><p>In the past, Rivera has defended his actions by saying he was really working for the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company — not directly as a consultant for the Venezuelan government in the United States. But the indictment filed in Miami says Rivera and Nuhfer were actually lobbying for the Venezuelan government in an effort to normalize relations between the South American country and the United States, prevent more economic sanctions against President Nicolas Maduro’s government and resolve a legal dispute between an unnamed U.S. oil company and Venezuela.</p><p>According to the indictment, Rivera and Nuhfer met with an unidentified U.S. senator in Washington, D.C., to discuss the normalization plan in 2017, but to no avail because Maduro’s government ultimately would not make a commitment to such a deal. Sources familiar with the case say Rivera and Nuhfer met with Sen. Marco Rubio, though the Miami Republican is not identified in the indictment by name.</p><p>Additionally, the indictment says, Rivera collaborated with a wealthy Venezuelan businessman, Raul Gorrin, who owned a home in Miami, to arrange a meeting between Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas and President Maduro in Caracas. On April 2, 2018, the indictment says, Rivera, Gorrin and Sessions met with Maduro and other Venezuelan politicians to discuss normalizing relations between the United States and Venezuela. As part of the meeting, Sessions agreed to carry a letter with that proposal from Maduro to President Donald Trump, but their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful.</p><p>The indictment accuses Rivera and Nuhfer of conspiring to “unlawfully enrich themselves by engaging in political activities in the United States on behalf of the Government of Venezuela ... in an effort to influence United States foreign policy toward Venezuela.” It further accuses them of trying “to conceal these efforts by failing to register under [federal law] as agents of the Government of Venezuela and by creating the false appearance that they were providing consulting services to PDV USA.“</p><p>As Venezuela’s economy was crashing in 2017, <a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article260644607.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >the country’s state-owned oil company hired Rivera for a costly public relations</a> campaign to prop up the Venezuelan firm in the United States and to prevent U.S. sanctions. In just a few months, Rivera’s business, Interamerican Consulting, collected $20 million from Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary, PDV USA, but its $50 million contract with the former politician abruptly ended when he was accused of doing little work, according to a lawsuit in New York that was filed before the federal indictment in Miami.</p><p>Court documents in both the civil and federal case revealed that Rivera diverted more than half of his PDV USA income — $13 million — to three subcontractors in Miami who supposedly provided “international strategic consulting services” for the Venezuelan firm.</p><p><b><a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article260644607.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >READ MORE: Rivera diverted $13 million from Venezuelan deal to convicted drug trafficker, others</a></b></p><p>One of Rivera’s subcontractors who received millions from his Venezuelan deal was a Miami real estate developer, Hugo Perera, who was convicted in one of South Florida’s biggest drug-trafficking cases, the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have learned from court records and sources familiar with Perera’s history. Perera is not named as a defendant in the indictment filed against Rivera and Nuhfer.</p><p>Perera’s main company, PG & Associates, which develops residential projects in Miami, and his other firm, Krome Agronomics, which sells fertilizer products, received a total of $4.85 million from Rivera’s consulting firm as part of his PDV USA contract, civil court records show.</p><p>Nuhfer’s Miami business, Communication Solutions, Inc., received a total of $4.5 million from Rivera’s firm, according to civil court records.</p><p>Lastly, a Miami company, Interglobal Yacht Management, LLC, which provided maintenance services for Venezuelan businessman Gorrin’s yacht, received a total of $3.75 million from Rivera’s firm.</p><p>Rivera and Nuhfer communicated with Perera and Gorrin about the consulting contract with PDV USA through encrypted text messages, according to the indictment.</p><p>But it was not clear from the civil and criminal court records whether the recipients of Rivera’s payments — including Nuhfer, Perera and Gorrin — ever did any work as part of his consulting firm’s contract with PDV USA. Gorrin, who was indicted in a separate foreign corruption and money-laundering case in 2018, is also not mentioned by name in the new indictment.</p><p>According to sources familiar with the case, both Perera and Gorrin, who at the time had homes on exclusive Fisher Island in Miami, helped Rivera land the public relations contract with the Venezuelan government and its national-oil company’s subsidiary, PDV USA. Perera introduced Gorrin to Rivera, and Gorrin then introduced Rivera to high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including foreign minister Delcy Eloina Rodriguez Gomez. She was also an executive at PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company.</p><p>But in the end, Rivera and his associates ultimately failed to prevent U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and its oil interests.</p><p>Between March 2017 and mid-April 2017, Rivera’s business, Interamerican Consulting, received three installment payments totaling $15 million from PDV USA, according to the indictment. “Rivera divided these funds in approximately equal amounts with Esther Nuhfer, Foreign Individual 1, and Individual 1,” says the indictment filed by prosecutor Harry Schimkat.</p><p>“Over time, Rivera, Nuhfer, Foreign Individual 1 and Individual 1 used their portions of these funds to pay for various personal and business expenses, such as the purchase of real estate, payment of expenses for luxury yachts, and, in Rivera’s case, contributions to his campaign for state office [in 2018],” according to the indictment. </p><p>Sources familiar with the FBI-led case say “Foreign Individual 1” is Gorrin, who owns a TV station in Caracas and was close to Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, and “Individual 1” is Perera, the Miami developer.</p><p>Venezuela’s U.S. subsidiary only became aware of Rivera’s diversion of payments after it sued his company, Interamerican Consulting, in 2020; it is battling with Rivera and his firm’s lawyers over obtaining key evidence from the former politician.</p><p>PDV USA, based in New York and the parent company of Houston-based Citgo, is seeking to recover payments totaling $20 million from Rivera’s company in a breach-of-contract suit stemming from their original $50 million agreement signed in 2017, court records show.</p><p>Rivera’s firm has filed a counterclaim seeking full payment of the contract.</p><p>Rivera, who never registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. government to do consulting work for the Venezuelan firm, had been under scrutiny in the parallel criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Miami for several years, according to sources familiar with the probe. But no one, including Rivera, had been charged in connection with his contract with PDV USA — until now.</p><p>Rivera, a one-term<b> </b>Cuban American congressman and former Florida legislator from Miami whose <a href= https://www.miamiherald.com/article260235685.html  target= _self  rel= Follow >career has been dogged by ethics and campaign-finance violation complaints</a>, once tried to expel a Venezuelan consul in Miami.</p><p>He is also a close friend of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, an arch critic of Maduro’s administration in Venezuela. Rivera and Rubio, both Republicans, shared a house in Tallahassee when they were both in the state Legislature.</p><p>The new indictment points out that Rivera met in 2017 with “U.S. Senator 1” on two occasions in Washington, D.C., the first at a private residence and the second at a hotel, to discuss the proposed normalization of relations between Venezuela and the United States. Although he’s not identified in the indictment, the Herald has learned that U.S. Senator 1 is Rubio.</p><p>At the first meeting, according to the indictment, Rivera told Rubio that Gorrin “had persuaded President Maduro to accept a deal whereby he would hold free and fair elections in Venezuela.” The second meeting involved Rivera, Nuhfer, Rubio, Gorrin and an unnamed Venezuelan politician by phone, the indictment says.</p><p>“By mid-July 2017, however, [Gorrin] informed Rivera, Nuhfer, and [Perera] that President Maduro had refused to agree to hold free and fair elections in Venezuela in exchange for reconciliation with the United States,” the indictment says.</p><p>Reached on Tuesday, a spokesman for Rubio’s office said Rivera had told the senator that Maduro’s close associate, Gorrin, wanted to deliver a letter to President Trump “outlining an agreement to hold free and fair elections and exit power.” But when Gorrin met briefly with Rubio in Washington that July, he “produced no such letter and failed to even mention the possibility of any such deal.”</p><p>Rubio’s spokesman also echoed what was noted by prosecutors in the new indictment: Rivera and his associates “never disclosed to any of the United States officials who they met that they were lobbying on behalf of the Government of Venezuela.” </p><p><i>El Nuevo Herald staff writer Antonio Maria Delgado contributed to this story.</i></p>"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
}

Response Content Table

Key	Description	Value
company_result	General container for the data of the company searched.	Array
name	Name of the company.	String
document_country	Country of the document (Alpha-2).	String
document_number	Document number.	String
document_type_unique_description	Description of the document type.	String
result_depuration	Results of the company searched.	Array
attorney_general_result	Results from the Dominican Republic General Attorney.	Object with details data
free_diary_result	Results from the Diario Libre (Dominican Republic Press).	Object with details data
ofac_result	Result from the Office of Foreign Assets Control.	Object with details data
dncd_result	Results from the Drugs Control National Direction.	Object with details data
nsopw_result	Result from the National Sex Offender Public Website.	Object with details data
miami_herald_result	Results from the Miami Herald (USA Press).	Object with details data

1.3. Unsuccessful response example:

1.3.1. Several errors (Response HTTP Status Code: 400):

{
    "message": "Self-explanatory message with the reason for the error."
}

Some possible reasons for errors:

You do not have a contracted plan.

Your subscription is expired or inactive.

Your subscription plan does not accept requests via API.

You have not completed your user’s personal data.

You have not confirmed your user’s phone number.

Your institution has not completed your identification data.

Searches exhausted.

1.3.2. Expired or invalid token error (Response HTTP Status Code: 500):

{
    "message": "Self-explanatory message with the reason for the error."
}