Biggest Banner, Penny-Warrant Delivery
The administration calls the NABEP deal 'the biggest oil deal in world history.' The actual instrument, senators warn, is penny warrants to a company whose leader faced international money-laundering investigations, going through a Pentagon office that probably cannot legally do this.
Source article: Senate Democrats challenge Pentagon's 35% stake in Venezuelan oil producer.
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- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- energy and resource, government, international relations, politics, law
- Storylines
- us-venezuela-oil-agreements
- Primary entities
- Senate Democrats, North American Blue Energy Partners, Pentagon, Office of Strategic Capital, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Chris Wright, Jeanne Shaheen, Jack Reed, Martin Heinrich, Elizabeth Warren, Alejandro Betancourt, Delcy Rodriguez, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, House Democrats
- Themes
- Congressional oversight, Executive-legislative authority, Government investment authority, Venezuela oil sector, Pentagon legal authority
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Informed citizenship