Friends pledge millions to free ex-Florida Rep. David Rivera. Judge will rule soon

MIAMI — A half-dozen prominent academic and political figures filed into Miami federal court on Thursday to pledge the value of their homes to help secure a proposed $7 million bond for their friend, former Congressman David Rivera, in a bid to free him from jail.

But a judge, who detained Rivera in early May after he was found guilty of being an unregistered foreign agent for the Venezuelan government, chose not to rule immediately on whether to release him before his July 20 sentencing.

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