Former Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to appear in federal court at noon Monday in New York, according to the District Court for the Southern District of New York media office.Maduro will be arraigned on a four-count indictment charging him with leading a 25-year narco-terrorism conspiracy that included several high-ranking members of his administration.He will appear before United States District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan.Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, were captured at their home on Jan. 3 during a U.S. military attack on Venezuela and brought to the United States.The New York City courthouse where the arraignment will take place has seen its fair share of high-profile cases, including that of U.S. President Donald Trump, alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione and rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Video below: After years away, some Venezuelans are hopeful for a path back homeHundreds of people lined up outside the courthouse Sunday evening to catch a glimpse of Maduro when he arrives at the courthouse Monday morning. In a newly unsealed indictment, Maduro is accused of running an illegitimate, corrupt government that was funded through a drug operation that flooded the United States with cocaine. He is also facing charges of narco-terrorism, drug-trafficking and weapons offenses. Trump, who ordered the military entry into Venezuela to arrest the president and his wife, vowed the United States would “run” the South American country until a democratic transition could occur.
Former Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to appear in federal court at noon Monday in New York, according to the District Court for the Southern District of New York media office.
Maduro will be arraigned on a four-count indictment charging him with leading a 25-year narco-terrorism conspiracy that included several high-ranking members of his administration.
He will appear before United States District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Manhattan.
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro, were captured at their home on Jan. 3 during a U.S. military attack on Venezuela and brought to the United States.
The New York City courthouse where the arraignment will take place has seen its fair share of high-profile cases, including that of U.S. President Donald Trump, alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione and rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs.
Video below: After years away, some Venezuelans are hopeful for a path back home
Hundreds of people lined up outside the courthouse Sunday evening to catch a glimpse of Maduro when he arrives at the courthouse Monday morning.
In a newly unsealed indictment, Maduro is accused of running an illegitimate, corrupt government that was funded through a drug operation that flooded the United States with cocaine.
He is also facing charges of narco-terrorism, drug-trafficking and weapons offenses.
Trump, who ordered the military entry into Venezuela to arrest the president and his wife, vowed the United States would “run” the South American country until a democratic transition could occur.
