Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
Julio Herrera Velutini in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August 2022, after being charged for his role in a scheme to bribe the territory’s governor, Wanda Vázquez, to dismiss a regulator who was investigating his bank.
Two Trump allies — Alina Habba Mildon and Richard Grenell — are locked in a raging dispute that has its roots in the battle for a share of the spoils in Venezuela.