Two Drug Enforcement Administration whistleblowers are demanding a $50 million reward on behalf of sources who helped provide information critical to the capture and extradition of ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The informants infiltrated “every node” of Maduro’s regime and then risked their lives to get tips about the Caracas strongman’s precise whereabouts back to the the DEA and high-level military members, according to the whistleblowers.
The veteran federal law enforcement officers — Wesley Tabor, a onetime DEA attaché in Venezuela, and an undercover agent identified only as “Mack “— told independent journalist Catherine Herridge in a new interview that those informants should be “rewarded” for the risks they had undertaken.
“I felt good, felt like we did something right,” Mack told Herridge, “and in my mind the sources at least would be rewarded and everybody would be rewarded at that point.”
Tabor, in a sworn Jan. 12 affidavit, testified about activating the source network and later providing briefings in September 2025 to retired Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, and John Moynihan, a former money laundering and intelligence specialist at the DEA.
The affidavit noted Maduro’s “exact locations” as well as that of his protective detail, as well as information on military installations, bunker schematics, underground tunnels and gold stockpiles — all of which were later passed along by Flynn and Moynihan to federal...
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