The Venezuelan billionaire the US investigated for money laundering now has a Pentagon oil deal

CARACAS/MIAMI - The billionaire who helped broker the Trump administration's sweeping long-term oil deal with Venezuela was until recently a target of US money-laundering investigations involving funds embezzled from the state-owned oil company PDVSA. Now, after assisting US authorities ahead of the capture of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, Alejandro Betancourt is Washington's key partner in an unusual oil agreement with...