Overview
- U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Venezuela and brought them to New York on federal narco-terrorism, cocaine-importation conspiracy, and weapons charges.
- Maduro pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court on Monday, telling the judge he is a decent man and the president of his country.
- 50 Cent posted an Instagram image depicting Maduro and Sean “Diddy” Combs together in a jail cell with the line, “They took my oil too,” and added a motivational caption.
- HotNewHipHop described the image as AI-generated, a detail not explicitly stated in Billboard’s report.
- Reports highlight that Maduro is being held at MDC Brooklyn, the same facility where Combs was previously detained before his transfer to FCI Fort Dix to serve a 50-month sentence.