US federal prosecutors added conspiracy-to-torture charges in early October 2026 to the existing narco-terrorism, cocaine-importation, and weapons counts against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who have been detained in Brooklyn since their January capture. The June 2027 trial date leaves extended pretrial litigation over head-of-state immunity claims, the legality of the military operation that seized them, and potential plea or political resolutions under the interim Venezuelan government. These procedural and political uncertainties underpin trader consensus that “no prison time” remains the leading outcome, while the possibility of conviction on multiple serious charges sustains the secondary probability of a lengthy sentence.