attorney dui florida: Marco Rubio’s Bestie Is an Accused “Foreign Agent”

David Rivera and Marco Rubio came up in '90s Florida politics as a team. Rubio was the golden child, Rivera the "feared" and "consummate behind-the-scenes strategist," as one Rubio biographer put it. The two were close enough that they bought a house together in Tallahassee.

But Rubio's roommate became a headache when they both ran for higher office and Rivera became a scandal magnet. Now he's been indicted for acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Caracas after signing a $50 million contract with the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company.

Susie Wiles—the lobbyist turned White House chief of staff—also pops up in the caper, and so does former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. And there's one particularly big name on the trial's witness list: Rivera's old friend Marco Rubio.

JACK HOLMES,
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