The lawsuit 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. In exchange, officials paid González $20 million between 2014 and 2018 to provide goods and services to Citgo’s parent company, PDVSA, at inflated prices. By Joshua Goodman. Full Text-> AP

The lawsuit against David Rivera’s Interamerican Consulting was filed Wednesday in New York federal court by Nicolas Maduro’s opponents who now control the U.S. subsidiary of PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-run oil giant. nbcMiami -> Video