MIAMI - A federal grand jury has handed up an indictment of former U.S. Rep. David Rivera which accuses him of acting as an unregistered agent for a Venezuelan national. Rivera, 59, has been charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and laundering funds to conceal and promote his criminal conduct.

The Justice Department announced the indictment of former Florida congressman David Rivera Wednesday, alleging Rivera acted as an unregistered agent of a Venezuelan businessman as part of a $5.5 million scheme.

Former U.S. congressman David Rivera has been indicted by a grand jury in the District of Columbia in a scheme to “violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and to launder funds to conceal and promote his criminal conduct,

Fla., was indicted on charges that he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act and laundered funds in order to "conceal and promote his criminal conduct," the Justice Department said.

A grand jury in Washington has returned an indictment against former Congressman David Rivera for failing to register as a foreign agent of a sanctioned Venezuelan media tycoon on whose behalf the Miami Republican allegedly lobbied the Trump administration.

A former member of Congress from Miami has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington D.C. for allegedly acting as an unregistered agent for a Venezuela.

Former South Florida Congressman David Rivera is facing federal charges. The Department of Justice has accused him of illegally lobbying U.S. government officials. They say for nearly a year, starting in 2019,