Joshua Goodman

September 23, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Federal prosecutors say Sargeant Marine and its affiliates paid bribes between 2010 and 2018 for contracts with state-run oil companies in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela, netting more than $38 million in profits as a result.

By Joshua Goodman

4 minute read

August 14, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Michael Nadler has indicted multiple Venezuelan Cabinet ministers, businessmen and Swiss bankers as part of a sustained effort to recover some of the $300 billion estimated to have been stolen from Venezuela in two decades of socialist rule.

By Joshua Goodman

5 minute read

June 02, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Bruce Bagley faces nearly five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering before U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, right.

By Joshua Goodman

4 minute read

May 27, 2020 | Daily Business Review

An opposition leader Juan Guaidó-appointed board of Citgo, the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company, accuses José Manuel González and his Miami-based Petroleum Logistics Service Corp. of providing gifts, including cash, jewelry, private artwork, chartered flights and even a handpicked Houston apartment, to senior executives at Citgo.

By Joshua Goodman

5 minute read

March 12, 2020 | Daily Business Review

The FBI wiretapped a retired supervisor in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office for at least three months last year while he worked in his post-retirement job as a private investigator for defense lawyers.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

5 minute read

February 24, 2020 | Daily Business Review

Jose Irizarry and his wife were arrested at their home near San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of a 19-count federal indictment that accused the 46-year-old Irizarry of "secretly using his position and his special access to information" to divert millions in drug proceeds from control of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

By Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

6 minute read

July 23, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The power in the capital went out Monday afternoon and immediately backed up traffic as stop lights and the subway stopped working during rush hour.

By Fabiola Sanchez and Joshua Goodman

5 minute read

March 22, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Citgo, the eighth-largest refiner in the U.S. and Venezuela's biggest foreign asset, has emerged as a major prize in the battle for power in Venezuela between President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido.

By Joshua Goodman

6 minute read

February 25, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Opposition leader Juan Guaido's comments over the weekend came after a tumultuous Saturday that saw President Nicolas Maduro's forces fire tear gas and buckshot on activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid in violent clashes that left two people dead and some 300 injured.

By Joshua Goodman and Christine Armario

7 minute read

February 21, 2019 | Daily Business Review

As tensions in Venezuela mount ahead of a Saturday showdown over humanitarian aid, both sides are digging in, highlighting how the South American nation's crisis has become the latest fault line in a battle for global influence by the former Cold War adversaries.

By Joshua Goodman and Vladimir Isachenkov

5 minute read