MIAMI — A Venezuelan political strategist allegedly threatened to shoot a gun through the door of his luxury MIAMI condo to avoid being served a lawsuit by a former U.S. Green Beret he hired as part of a plan to oust President Nicolas Maduro, according to a court hearing Monday.
Jordan Goudreau in October 2020 sued JJ Rendón for $1.4 million, alleging breach of contract, after Rendon walked away from a plan he briefly pushed on behalf of the Venezuelan opposition to depose Maduro with the help of the three-time Bronze Star recipient and Iraq war veteran.
Goudreau nonetheless plowed ahead, traveling to Colombia to help train a ragtag army of volunteers at secret camps set up by deserters from Venezuela's military. Operation Gideon — or the Bay of Piglets, as the bloody fiasco came to be known — ended with six insurgents dead and two of Goudreau's former Special Forces buddies behind bars in Caracas.
Rendón denied making any such threats to avoid being served the complaint, saying that his door to his apartment is bulletproofed and he doesn't possess any guns.
“It's another crazy, delusional and baseless claim inside an originally baseless lawsuit,” he told The Associated Press in a brief statement.
Goudreau and his Florida-based company, Silvercorp USA, accuse Rendón of defaulting on an agreement they had signed earlier to detain, capture or remove Maduro and install in his place Juan Guaidó, who the U.S….
