MIAMI—Venezuela’s socialist government previously hired a longtime Democratic Party donor for $6 million at the same time it was lobbying to discourage the U.S. from imposing sanctions on the oil-rich nation, newly filed lobbying records (pdf) show.
The documents, which were disclosed on Jan. 28, indicate that a U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil giant PDVSA agreed to hire Marcia Wiss’s Washington law firm in March 2017. That’s the same month it signed a consulting deal for $50 million with scandal-tainted former Rep. David Rivera.
