The welfare brand was CLAP. The paperwork clapped louder. Prosecutors still keep four co-conspirators in a drawer like spare batteries.
- Alex Saab, 54, plead guilty Tuesday in Miami to conspiracy to launder money.
- Deal say forfeit $195 million. Cooperate fully. Max on the count is 20 years. Sentence not set.
- He admit a near decade skim off CLAP, the Venezuelan food and medicine welfare program. Fake firms. Fake invoices. Fake shipping papers.
- Also admit using PDVSA oil under false labels when sanctions bite.
- Judge Kathleen Williams read a 12 page deal. Four other names still sealed.
- Maduro and Cilia Flores wait trial in New York on weapons and drug counts.
- Extradited in May by Delcy Rodriguez after the January raid in Caracas.
- The man who moved the cash now has to talk.
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