Old Rubio confidante accused of acting as Venezuela agent can go to RNC, judge says

A federal judge is allowing embattled former U.S. Rep. David Rivera to travel to Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention. The question is: does U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio want him there?

Rivera, who’s charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s government, has a decades-long personal and political relationship with Rubio. The two men have known one another for decades, and even owned a home together in Tallahassee at one point. They served alongside one another in the Florida state House and Rivera won his U.S. House seat the same year Rubio was elected to the Senate.  But their paths have diverged wildly since then.

The two men may find themselves in the same place again next week during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump will formally accept the GOP’s presidential nomination and name his vice presidential pick. Rivera, an elected convention delegate, was freed up to attend the convention after Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres granted his request to travel to Milwaukee.

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