Chris Menahan – Information Liberation Jan 6, 2026
The US sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned oil company Citgo into bankruptcy, forced its sale to Zionist billionaire Paul Singer for about $6 billion two months ago, and then captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to “take over” the country.
This comes after the US banned TikTok and forced its sale to a consortium of investors led by Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison.
For [Paul Singer’s] activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, Nicolás Maduro’s swift exit comes at an auspicious time.
A U.S. judge in November backed a roughly $6 billion bid by Elliott for Citgo Petroleum, the refining firm owned by Venezuela’s state-run company Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PdVSA, in a forced sale to satisfy creditors. Citgo, based in Houston, owns a U.S. network of refineries, pipelines and terminals that some analysts have said could be worth between $11 billion and $13 billion.
The deal was controversial in Venezuela. Maduro’s government denounced the proposed sale as fraudulent. The board recognized by the U.S. government as the legitimate overseer of PdVSA’s overseas oil assets vowed to fight to keep Citgo under Venezuelan control.
Less than two months after receiving the judge’s endorsement, Elliott is looking at a more favorable—albeit chaotic—landscape. Maduro is being held in a New York jail. President Trump has sidelined the opposition, accused Venezuela of stealing American crude and said U.S. firms would be strongly involved in its oil industry.
Now, Elliott appears poised to reap the rewards of owning Venezuela’s most valuable foreign oil asset. The regime change could lead to an increase in Venezuelan oil production, which would likely provide cheap feedstock to Citgo’s Gulf Coast refineries and increase the company’s value, analysts and refining experts said.
“Maduro is out, so a lot of the threat is out,” said Jay Auslander, a litigator who represents sovereign interests and private-equity funds. “It looks like a potentially quite good deal that remains high risk.”
Elliott isn’t in the clear yet. The hedge fund still needs approval from the Treasury Department to conclude the deal. Plus, PdVSA and Venezuela have appealed the judicial sale.
Rep. Thomas Massie raised this issue on Sunday.
According to Grok, Paul Singer, globalist Republican mega-donor who’s already spent $1,000,000 to defeat me in the next election, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed CITGO investment, now that this administration has taken over Venezuela.https://t.co/hq1STlEyAq
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 4, 2026
“In 2024, Singer, an 81-year-old with a net worth of $6.7 billion, donated $5 million to Make America Great Again Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. Singer donated tens of millions more in the 2024 cycle to support Trump’s allies, including $37 million to support the election of Republicans to Congress. He also donated an undisclosed amount to fund Trump’s second transition,” Judd Legum reports.
Singer’s $5.89 billion bid wasn’t even the highest bid, MarketWatch reports:
The forced auction was a lengthy process that pitted Amber Energy against one other contender, Gold Reserves Ltd., a creditor of Venezuela that had its gold- and copper-mining assets expropriated. The winning bid from the Elliott Management affiliate came in at $5.89 billion, lower than the $7 billion bid from Gold Reserves, but a federal judge in Delaware viewed Elliott’s bid as most likely to close, as it included payments to Venezuela’s creditors.
The deal is expected to close this year, lawyers involved in the situation have said.
The Ellison group’s bid for TikTok wasn’t the highest bid either, though his group seems to have won anyway.
The Wall Street Journal noted how Singer made billions in the past by buying worthless debt from Argentina and then successfully lobbying the US to force them to pay:
Elliott has a history of clinching lucrative deals in risky locales. After Argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt in 2001, most foreign bondholders settled for pennies on the dollar, but Elliott held firm. The hedge fund spent tens of millions of dollars on a legal, lobbying and PR blitz around the world to make the country pay. The efforts eventually led to a $2 billion payday.
If this was the real driving force behind the US’s regime change operation, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Are these Jewish billionaires you find everywhere as the dominant owners and financiers not following the same manipulative and dishonest patterns used by the Rothschild dynasty to take over the financial system of the UK in the 19th century, and then through that money power to take over the US banking industry, finances, the press, railways and major industries in the US by the beginning of the 20th century? Were not Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg agents of that same dynasty used with their flunky J.P. Morgan to set up the US Federal Reserve with the power to print money out of nothing, and was not the planting of that financial octopus in the US, and every other nation since, including now in Venezuela, not all part of a criminal conspiracy to take over the world by hook and crook? Just asking.
Oh yes, it most certainly must be their superior intelligence, solidarity, and organization, or God, which has brough them such vast ownership and control of over our nations, and the rest of us are only jealous of their “success”? That must be it, or is it the case that if everyone had access to the inside track of the money power (the power to make credit out of nothing) there would be a much more even distribution of wealth, and all nations would have a chance to own and develop their own resources, without all of crime and bullshit we see with people such as Paul Singer.
What of the Koch brothers in the US who are are worth over $60 US and who make their co-conspirator Paul Singer and his oil interests look like a financial midget? They were never satisfied with the measly $409 million settlement for the nationalization of their FertiNito holdings in Venezuela, and it is not Singer who will benefit the most through this recent US takeover of the oil industry.
AI Overview
“Broader Interests & Context:
Heavy Oil: Koch refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast process super-heavy Venezuelan crude, a strategic resource for them….
Political Alignment: The Kochs are major backers of right-wing politics, and their conflicts with Venezuela’s socialist government were framed within broader geopolitical struggles over energy and resources.”
The Koch brothers, who are of the same organized tribe, control the US Libertarian faction, and you will find that same tribe controls not just the money power and finances of the US, but US politics, US brainwashing, and US foreign policy. They claim to own the place, and it is likely why the US is the organized crime capital of the world running a world-wide protection racket and conspiring with other prodigy nations such as the PRC and Russia.
However, now with everything coming out of the closet these days, we must not suspect any “conspiracy” of the Jews for global domination – even when they claim not just to own and control the US, but the entire world – are we? Blaming them for blatant usurpations, destabilizing not just industries but entire nations to take them over, wars and other things like genocide may hurt their feelings and make them feel insecure because of past persecutions. No, we cannot have the truth come out and connect all of the dots. We cannot have real freedom of information, only the pretense, Nor are we to see any contradictions between nations and other peoples maintaining the right of self determination and the US libertarians being owned and controlled by the Kock clan?
Never trust anyone who wears a suit…
War for this Paul Singer and his ilk? War for profiteering for this Paul Singer and his ilk?
The imperial arrogance expression is repulsive, though to judge by appearance, as such is to be stereotypical, but in this case, arrogance.
A vulture, as in a vulture capitalist, a Zionist International as well, who will be regarded by so many in South America as a representative of profit from war by America.
As to the Middle East, Jarod Kushner personifies the same: “…the Gaza is valuable property.” Indeed, Valuable for the war profiteers such as Kushner and his ilk.
What are American sanctions for? When “American” API drill and casing pipes produced in Colombia, shipped to US and then quenched and tempered in an Texan API certified finishing line run by an former migrant from the Dominican Republic, officially stenciled as API products of Lone Star Steel (with an microscopic non lasting “Made in Colombia under the license of LSS) and is then (2002) exported via Belgium to Iran during the height of “full on” American sanctions against Iran one has to ask again: What are American sanctions for? Make black markets, contraband and crooked Murican Entrepreneurs great again? Surely Murica is a very industrial nation, lol!
@TheyRLying
Alastair Crooke says 100 kike Billionaires control US…this worthless untermensch is one of them
the more money kikes steal from us, the more worthless they become…
@Simon Smith
or a kike with a pulse