Here's your Forbes daily briefing for Sunday, January 11th.

Today on Forbes, these Trump supporters, financiers, and energy tycoons could make billions

from the Venezuela invasion.

After the U.S. military abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last weekend, Wall Street Watchers were

quick to declare the biggest winner. Paul Singer, the $6.7 billion in net worth hedge fund manager

famous for investing in distressed assets around the world. Amber Energy, a Houston-based

startup backed by Singer's firm Elliott Management,

recently prevailed in a U.S. federal court auction to buy Venezuelan oil company Citgo,

which owns three refineries in Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois,

plus a distribution network of 4,000 Citgo gas stations for $5.9 billion, what many deem to be a steal.

A Trump supporter who helped bankroll his transition team, Singer may indeed be the biggest winner,

but he's not the only Wall Street mogul poised to benefit from the Citgo deal.

Forbes spoke with several people involved in the deal, and it turns out

there are other big-time players backing Elliot and Amber's bid to run Citgo, on top of other

hedge funds and investment firms that are poised to capture a windfall. Elliot, according to a person

familiar with the deal, is funding a third of the equity and leading

a consortium of Wall Street heavyweights. The group includes Los Angeles-based

alternatives investor Oak Tree Capital Management, led by billionaires Howard Marks and Bruce

Karsh, according to two people familiar with the matter. Also part of the consortium is

$43 billion in assets hedge fund Silver Point Capital.

Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, the firm was founded and is run by Ed Mullet and Robert O'Shea,

former Goldman Sachs group partners who each held senior positions in the firm's fixed income

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