{"id":1243,"date":"2026-03-27T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:17:00","slug":"judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge May Reconsider Dismissing Maduro\u2019s Case Due to US Blocking His Legal Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2267881501-1200x900.jpg\" \/><br><p>U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/judge-may-reconsider-dismissing-maduros-case-due-to-us-blocking-his-legal-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  truthout.org<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on March 26, even though the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is blocking funds for their legal defense, in violation of the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Source Source link&hellip;","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}