US EditionMembers’ Newsletter: Maduro’s Machinegun Charges
Maduro faces enhanced drug trafficking charges including machinegun possession linked to conspiracy, with a mandatory 30-year sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), prosecutors said.
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Chicago Tribune
By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips. Online platforms allow people to bet on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election, and more recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The latter is bringing renewed scrutiny to this murky world of 24/7 speculative trading. Last week, an anonymous gambler pocketed more than $400,000 after predicting that Maduro would soon leave office.
Members’ Newsletter: Maduro’s Machinegun Charges
The United States captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a surprise military operation about a week ago. He’s now sitting in New York facing drug trafficking charges in federal court. But the DOJ also filed machingun possession offenses against Maduro. So, what exactly do those charges mean? Is the US asserting that Maduro himself possessed an unregistered machinegun? Is it just claiming… Source
Maduro’s capture: two hours that shook the world
It took US forces less than two-and-a-half hours to snatch President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the small hours of last Saturday morning, said Dan Sabbagh in The Guardian.But this “extraordinary display of imperial power” – involving 150 US aircraft, including bombers and fighter jets – was the product of months of planning.‘He got bum rushed so fast’According to Gen Dan “Raizin” Caine, chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, U…
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