Zionist GOP Megadonor Paul Singer Stands to Make Billions Off Venezuela Regime Change Op

For [Paul Singer's] activist hedge fund Elliott Investment Management, Nicolás Maduro's swift exit comes at an auspicious time.

A U.S. judge in November backed a roughly $6 billion bid by Elliott for Citgo Petroleum, the refining firm owned by Venezuela's state-run company Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PdVSA, in a forced sale to satisfy creditors. Citgo, based in Houston, owns a U.S. network of refineries, pipelines and terminals that some analysts have said could be worth between $11 billion and $13 billion.

The deal was controversial in Venezuela. Maduro's government denounced the proposed sale as fraudulent. The board recognized by the U.S. government as the legitimate overseer of PdVSA's overseas oil assets vowed to fight to keep Citgo under Venezuelan control.

Less than two months after receiving the judge's endorsement, Elliott is looking at a more favorable—albeit chaotic—landscape. Maduro is being held in a New York jail. President Trump has sidelined the opposition, accused Venezuela of stealing American crude and said U.S. firms would be strongly involved in its oil industry.

Now, Elliott appears poised to reap the rewards of owning Venezuela's most valuable foreign oil asset. The regime change could lead to an increase in Venezuelan oil production, which would likely provide cheap feedstock to Citgo's Gulf Coast refineries and increase the company's value, analysts and refining experts said.

"Maduro is out, so a lot of the threat is out," said Jay Auslander, a litigator who represents sovereign interests and private-equity funds. "It looks like a potentially quite good deal that remains high risk."

Elliott isn't in the clear yet. The hedge fund still needs approval from the Treasury Department to conclude the deal. Plus, PdVSA and Venezuela have appealed the judicial sale.

According to Grok, Paul Singer, globalist Republican mega-donor who’s already spent $1,000,000 to defeat me in the next election, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed CITGO investment, now that this administration has taken over Venezuela.https://t.co/hq1STlEyAq

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 4, 2026

The forced auction was a lengthy process that pitted Amber Energy against one other contender, Gold Reserves Ltd., a creditor of Venezuela that had its gold- and copper-mining assets expropriated. The winning bid from the Elliott Management affiliate came in at $5.89 billion, lower than the $7 billion bid from Gold Reserves, but a federal judge in Delaware viewed Elliott's bid as most likely to close, as it included payments to Venezuela's creditors.

The deal is expected to close this year, lawyers involved in the situation have said.

Elliott has a history of clinching lucrative deals in risky locales. After Argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt in 2001, most foreign bondholders settled for pennies on the dollar, but Elliott held firm. The hedge fund spent tens of millions of dollars on a legal, lobbying and PR blitz around the world to make the country pay. The efforts eventually led to a $2 billion payday.