Steve Castagnetta

HFH has built 300,000 houses +, providing shelter for more than 1 million people .
Castagnetta Realty Group
Real Estate Agent #01835216 @ EXP Realty

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@larrymfwhite Thank you soooo much for your contribution with Clarkes inner circle tonight . Greatly appreciate it . Let me know if you plan at being at build in Dallas https://t.co/4tUs3hF68A Just bought an investment property in the Dallas region ,, time to exit Cali :))

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@Kev937612516605 Gavin is the perfect race baiter - doesn’t fix real problems - homeless drug addicts yet let’s on millions of homeless plus the train to no where

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@catholiclawyer Exactly !! Let’s stop the waste on the train to no where

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@TheannBat1 Gavin stop creating falsehoods your every over the years should have been to clean up the homeless office which is fueled by addicts - if we can’t take care of the homeless we shouldn’t let “ homeless “ people enter into our country - have a sponsor or no entrance - #Hilton

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@GavinNewsom Instead of creating falsehoods your every over the years should have been to clean up the homeless office which is fueled by addicts - if we can’t take care of the homeless we shouldn’t let “ homeless “ people enter into our country - have a sponsor or no entrance - STOP

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@BillOReilly A sign of a great leader is doing the right thing even when it’s not popular . We can NEVER let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Even if I have to pay more at the pump . Need law against gouging from oil companies. It’s national security America’s in conflict with others

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

@SenSanders How stupid . It’s already in place . It’s called the IRS . You make money you pay taxes

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Go after employers which worked in the past

Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (a large Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and utility contractor) paid a total of $95 million in 2017—the largest payment ever levied in a U.S. immigration case against a company.
This record, confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), consisted of:
•$80 million criminal forfeiture money judgment (from a guilty plea to unlawfully employing aliens).
•$15 million civil settlement payment (for failures to comply with immigration laws, including I-9 violations and related issues).
The case stemmed from a six-year investigation (starting around 2009–2011) into Asplundh’s practices from 2010 to 2014. The company (one of the largest privately held U.S. firms at the time, with ~30,000 employees and billions in revenue) was found to have hired and rehired thousands of unauthorized workers. Lower-level managers used word-of-mouth referrals and accepted fraudulent documents, while senior management remained “willfully blind” to maximize profits and productivity. Asplundh pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on September 28, 2017, and was also required to enter a compliance agreement.
ICE explicitly described this as “the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE” and “the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case.” No larger single-company immigration penalty (civil, criminal, or combined) has been reported since, including in 2025 enforcement actions.
Key Comparisons to Other Notable Cases
For context, here are some other significant immigration-related penalties against companies (none exceeding Asplundh’s):
•Infosys Limited (2013): $34 million civil settlement for systemic visa fraud/abuse (e.g., misuse of B-1 visas and I-9 paperwork violations)—the record at the time, but later surpassed.
•Pappas Partners (Texas restaurant chain, pre-2017): $1.75 million (then the largest for employment violations at the time).
•Colorado companies (2025): Over $8 million total proposed fines across three janitorial firms (largest single: ~$6.2 million to CCS Denver, Inc., for I-9 violations and knowingly hiring ~87 unauthorized workers). This was described by media/ICE as among the largest since the current administration took office but far below the overall record.
•Smaller examples: Various I-9 paperwork or knowing-hire fines in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (e.g., $2.25 million in one 2015 case; $329,895 in a 2025 repeat-offender case).
Notes:
•These penalties fall under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) for I-9 compliance, unauthorized employment, or related criminal provisions. Civil fines per violation have inflation-adjusted ranges (hundreds to thousands of dollars each), but scale dramatically with volume, knowing violations, or criminal elements. Criminal cases can add forfeitures.
•“Levied fines” here includes the full monetary recovery (civil + criminal), as ICE and DOJ treat the $95 million holistically as the record immigration penalty. Pure civil I-9 fines alone are typically much smaller.
•Enforcement has varied by administration (e.g., more audits under Trump eras), but Asplundh remains the undisputed high-water mark as of 2026.
Sources include official ICE press releases, DOJ announcements, and contemporaneous reporting from 2017 onward. No larger case has emerged in subsequent years.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Go back to the basics go after employers

Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (a large Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and utility contractor) paid a total of $95 million in 2017—the largest payment ever levied in a U.S. immigration case against a company.
This record, confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), consisted of:
•$80 million criminal forfeiture money judgment (from a guilty plea to unlawfully employing aliens).
•$15 million civil settlement payment (for failures to comply with immigration laws, including I-9 violations and related issues).
The case stemmed from a six-year investigation (starting around 2009–2011) into Asplundh’s practices from 2010 to 2014. The company (one of the largest privately held U.S. firms at the time, with ~30,000 employees and billions in revenue) was found to have hired and rehired thousands of unauthorized workers. Lower-level managers used word-of-mouth referrals and accepted fraudulent documents, while senior management remained “willfully blind” to maximize profits and productivity. Asplundh pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on September 28, 2017, and was also required to enter a compliance agreement.
ICE explicitly described this as “the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE” and “the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case.” No larger single-company immigration penalty (civil, criminal, or combined) has been reported since, including in 2025 enforcement actions.
Key Comparisons to Other Notable Cases
For context, here are some other significant immigration-related penalties against companies (none exceeding Asplundh’s):
•Infosys Limited (2013): $34 million civil settlement for systemic visa fraud/abuse (e.g., misuse of B-1 visas and I-9 paperwork violations)—the record at the time, but later surpassed.
•Pappas Partners (Texas restaurant chain, pre-2017): $1.75 million (then the largest for employment violations at the time).
•Colorado companies (2025): Over $8 million total proposed fines across three janitorial firms (largest single: ~$6.2 million to CCS Denver, Inc., for I-9 violations and knowingly hiring ~87 unauthorized workers). This was described by media/ICE as among the largest since the current administration took office but far below the overall record.
•Smaller examples: Various I-9 paperwork or knowing-hire fines in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (e.g., $2.25 million in one 2015 case; $329,895 in a 2025 repeat-offender case).
Notes:
•These penalties fall under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) for I-9 compliance, unauthorized employment, or related criminal provisions. Civil fines per violation have inflation-adjusted ranges (hundreds to thousands of dollars each), but scale dramatically with volume, knowing violations, or criminal elements. Criminal cases can add forfeitures.
•“Levied fines” here includes the full monetary recovery (civil + criminal), as ICE and DOJ treat the $95 million holistically as the record immigration penalty. Pure civil I-9 fines alone are typically much smaller.
•Enforcement has varied by administration (e.g., more audits under Trump eras), but Asplundh remains the undisputed high-water mark as of 2026.
Sources include official ICE press releases, DOJ announcements, and contemporaneous reporting from 2017 onward. No larger case has emerged in subsequent years.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Go after businesses that support illegal immigration

Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (a large Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and utility contractor) paid a total of $95 million in 2017—the largest payment ever levied in a U.S. immigration case against a company.
This record, confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), consisted of:
•$80 million criminal forfeiture money judgment (from a guilty plea to unlawfully employing aliens).
•$15 million civil settlement payment (for failures to comply with immigration laws, including I-9 violations and related issues).
The case stemmed from a six-year investigation (starting around 2009–2011) into Asplundh’s practices from 2010 to 2014. The company (one of the largest privately held U.S. firms at the time, with ~30,000 employees and billions in revenue) was found to have hired and rehired thousands of unauthorized workers. Lower-level managers used word-of-mouth referrals and accepted fraudulent documents, while senior management remained “willfully blind” to maximize profits and productivity. Asplundh pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on September 28, 2017, and was also required to enter a compliance agreement.
ICE explicitly described this as “the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE” and “the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case.” No larger single-company immigration penalty (civil, criminal, or combined) has been reported since, including in 2025 enforcement actions.
Key Comparisons to Other Notable Cases
For context, here are some other significant immigration-related penalties against companies (none exceeding Asplundh’s):
•Infosys Limited (2013): $34 million civil settlement for systemic visa fraud/abuse (e.g., misuse of B-1 visas and I-9 paperwork violations)—the record at the time, but later surpassed.
•Pappas Partners (Texas restaurant chain, pre-2017): $1.75 million (then the largest for employment violations at the time).
•Colorado companies (2025): Over $8 million total proposed fines across three janitorial firms (largest single: ~$6.2 million to CCS Denver, Inc., for I-9 violations and knowingly hiring ~87 unauthorized workers). This was described by media/ICE as among the largest since the current administration took office but far below the overall record.
•Smaller examples: Various I-9 paperwork or knowing-hire fines in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (e.g., $2.25 million in one 2015 case; $329,895 in a 2025 repeat-offender case).
Notes:
•These penalties fall under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) for I-9 compliance, unauthorized employment, or related criminal provisions. Civil fines per violation have inflation-adjusted ranges (hundreds to thousands of dollars each), but scale dramatically with volume, knowing violations, or criminal elements. Criminal cases can add forfeitures.
•“Levied fines” here includes the full monetary recovery (civil + criminal), as ICE and DOJ treat the $95 million holistically as the record immigration penalty. Pure civil I-9 fines alone are typically much smaller.
•Enforcement has varied by administration (e.g., more audits under Trump eras), but Asplundh remains the undisputed high-water mark as of 2026.
Sources include official ICE press releases, DOJ announcements, and contemporaneous reporting from 2017 onward. No larger case has emerged in subsequent years.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

We need to go back to what worked- go bc after employers

Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (a large Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and utility contractor) paid a total of $95 million in 2017—the largest payment ever levied in a U.S. immigration case against a company.
This record, confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), consisted of:
•$80 million criminal forfeiture money judgment (from a guilty plea to unlawfully employing aliens).
•$15 million civil settlement payment (for failures to comply with immigration laws, including I-9 violations and related issues).
The case stemmed from a six-year investigation (starting around 2009–2011) into Asplundh’s practices from 2010 to 2014. The company (one of the largest privately held U.S. firms at the time, with ~30,000 employees and billions in revenue) was found to have hired and rehired thousands of unauthorized workers. Lower-level managers used word-of-mouth referrals and accepted fraudulent documents, while senior management remained “willfully blind” to maximize profits and productivity. Asplundh pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on September 28, 2017, and was also required to enter a compliance agreement.
ICE explicitly described this as “the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE” and “the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case.” No larger single-company immigration penalty (civil, criminal, or combined) has been reported since, including in 2025 enforcement actions.
Key Comparisons to Other Notable Cases
For context, here are some other significant immigration-related penalties against companies (none exceeding Asplundh’s):
•Infosys Limited (2013): $34 million civil settlement for systemic visa fraud/abuse (e.g., misuse of B-1 visas and I-9 paperwork violations)—the record at the time, but later surpassed.
•Pappas Partners (Texas restaurant chain, pre-2017): $1.75 million (then the largest for employment violations at the time).
•Colorado companies (2025): Over $8 million total proposed fines across three janitorial firms (largest single: ~$6.2 million to CCS Denver, Inc., for I-9 violations and knowingly hiring ~87 unauthorized workers). This was described by media/ICE as among the largest since the current administration took office but far below the overall record.
•Smaller examples: Various I-9 paperwork or knowing-hire fines in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (e.g., $2.25 million in one 2015 case; $329,895 in a 2025 repeat-offender case).
Notes:
•These penalties fall under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) for I-9 compliance, unauthorized employment, or related criminal provisions. Civil fines per violation have inflation-adjusted ranges (hundreds to thousands of dollars each), but scale dramatically with volume, knowing violations, or criminal elements. Criminal cases can add forfeitures.
•“Levied fines” here includes the full monetary recovery (civil + criminal), as ICE and DOJ treat the $95 million holistically as the record immigration penalty. Pure civil I-9 fines alone are typically much smaller.
•Enforcement has varied by administration (e.g., more audits under Trump eras), but Asplundh remains the undisputed high-water mark as of 2026.
Sources include official ICE press releases, DOJ announcements, and contemporaneous reporting from 2017 onward. No larger case has emerged in subsequent years.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

This is what we need to do what worked in the past

Asplundh Tree Experts, Co. (a large Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and utility contractor) paid a total of $95 million in 2017—the largest payment ever levied in a U.S. immigration case against a company.
This record, confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), consisted of:
•$80 million criminal forfeiture money judgment (from a guilty plea to unlawfully employing aliens).
•$15 million civil settlement payment (for failures to comply with immigration laws, including I-9 violations and related issues).
The case stemmed from a six-year investigation (starting around 2009–2011) into Asplundh’s practices from 2010 to 2014. The company (one of the largest privately held U.S. firms at the time, with ~30,000 employees and billions in revenue) was found to have hired and rehired thousands of unauthorized workers. Lower-level managers used word-of-mouth referrals and accepted fraudulent documents, while senior management remained “willfully blind” to maximize profits and productivity. Asplundh pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on September 28, 2017, and was also required to enter a compliance agreement.
ICE explicitly described this as “the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE” and “the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case.” No larger single-company immigration penalty (civil, criminal, or combined) has been reported since, including in 2025 enforcement actions.
Key Comparisons to Other Notable Cases
For context, here are some other significant immigration-related penalties against companies (none exceeding Asplundh’s):
•Infosys Limited (2013): $34 million civil settlement for systemic visa fraud/abuse (e.g., misuse of B-1 visas and I-9 paperwork violations)—the record at the time, but later surpassed.
•Pappas Partners (Texas restaurant chain, pre-2017): $1.75 million (then the largest for employment violations at the time).
•Colorado companies (2025): Over $8 million total proposed fines across three janitorial firms (largest single: ~$6.2 million to CCS Denver, Inc., for I-9 violations and knowingly hiring ~87 unauthorized workers). This was described by media/ICE as among the largest since the current administration took office but far below the overall record.
•Smaller examples: Various I-9 paperwork or knowing-hire fines in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (e.g., $2.25 million in one 2015 case; $329,895 in a 2025 repeat-offender case).
Notes:
•These penalties fall under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) for I-9 compliance, unauthorized employment, or related criminal provisions. Civil fines per violation have inflation-adjusted ranges (hundreds to thousands of dollars each), but scale dramatically with volume, knowing violations, or criminal elements. Criminal cases can add forfeitures.
•“Levied fines” here includes the full monetary recovery (civil + criminal), as ICE and DOJ treat the $95 million holistically as the record immigration penalty. Pure civil I-9 fines alone are typically much smaller.
•Enforcement has varied by administration (e.g., more audits under Trump eras), but Asplundh remains the undisputed high-water mark as of 2026.
Sources include official ICE press releases, DOJ announcements, and contemporaneous reporting from 2017 onward. No larger case has emerged in subsequent years.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Why you lost !!!

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Dishonest Bernie boy

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Hilarious that the left chants NO KINGS - yet wants a dictator

Here’s some facts to the dishonest people or ignorant

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.

[Steve Castagnetta @SingForHabitat]

Yes, the United States did offer a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro during the Biden administration.
The original reward was set at up to $15 million in March 2020 under the Trump administration, following Maduro’s indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, and related firearms offenses.
On January 10, 2025 (near the end of Biden’s term), the U.S. Department of State increased this reward to up to $25 million for Maduro, as part of broader actions responding to Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, which the U.S. viewed as fraudulent and illegitimate. This increase was announced alongside similar raises for other officials (e.g., Diosdado Cabello to $25 million) and additional measures like visa restrictions and support for Venezuelan migrants.
This is confirmed by official U.S. State Department announcements, including archived pages from https://t.co/p3edhfIdmD detailing the January 2025 increase from $15 million to $25 million. Multiple reputable sources (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Snopes, and later references in 2026 coverage) describe it as an action taken under the Biden administration.
Note on later developments: The reward was further increased to up to $50 million on August 7, 2025, under the subsequent Trump administration, after designating the Cartel de los Soles (linked to Maduro) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization. However, the specific $25 million level was established during Biden’s presidency.
This reward is part of the long-standing Narcotics Rewards Program, aimed at disrupting drug trafficking networks, and is typically more symbolic in such cases than a literal “bounty” for capture.