2 Said to Be Venezuelan First Lady’s Nephews Charged in Drug Plot

Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday charged two men — identified by a person briefed on the case as nephews of the wife of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela — with conspiring to ship cocaine to the United States. The two men, identified in an indictment unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan as Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, were arrested in Haiti on Tuesday at the request of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and handed over to its agents. They were then flown to New York to face charges, according to the person with knowledge of the case. They were expected to make a brief court appearance on Thursday. More…