Judge pushes Trump admin to let Venezuela pay for Maduro’s legal fees

March 26, 2026

Politico: At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein suggested he will compel prosecutors to revisit the issue with the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which has denied a license to Venezuela that would allow the country to circumvent sanctions to pay for the legal defense of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores…