Barry Polack, the lawyer representing Nicolas Maduro in the United States, requested that Bruce Fein, a former lawyer for the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration, be excluded from the defense team.

The court request was filed two days after Fein joined the case, and a judge The motion was granted, and the removal proceeded. Court documents show the request, which argues that Fein was never hired or authorized by Maduro. “Neither the undersigned attorney, nor anyone acting on his behalf, has authorized Mr. Fein to appear on behalf of Mr. Maduro,” Pollack wrote to the judge Thursday night. Who is Bruce Fein? Fein graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. Between 1981 and 1989, he was Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Ronald Reagan administration. Throughout his career, he advised countries such as Hungary and South Africa on constitutional reform processes and was director of research for the U.S. Congressional Joint Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. According to his law firm's website, Fein has “assisted several countries in writing or rewriting their constitutions” and worked “at the highest levels of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.” In 2021, he was a policy advisor for Ron Paul's presidential campaign.