The senator allegedly searched 'how much is one kilo of gold worth' after a trip to Egypt
released damning visual evidence to back up their allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife took bribes from a trio of New Jersey businesspeople.
A lawyer for Menendez, 69, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the senator said “forces behind the scenes” have tried to silence him and “dig my political grave.” David Schertler, a lawyer for Menendez’s wife, Nadine Menendez, said she denies “any criminal conduct and will vigorously contest these charges in court.”While defendants sometimes claim they were unaware of items found in their homes or cars, the indictment suggests that would be a tough sell for the senator. Cash-filled “envelopes were found inside jackets bearing Menendez’s name and hanging in his closet,” prosecutors say.
In late 2018, an accident left Nadine Menendez without a car, the indictment says. One of the businesspeople allegedly stepped in in April 2019 to help her buy a Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, at one point texting an associate to request $15,000 in cash. The following day, the businessperson met Arslanian in a restaurant parking lot and handed her “approximately $15,000 in cash,” the indictment alleges, without explaining how prosecutors know about the hand-off.
Menendez called a senior prosecutor and tried “through advice and pressure” to get a favorable result for the businessperson’s associate and another person being probed, the indictment alleges. The state prosecutor considered Menendez’s intervention “inappropriate,” but the defendant in that case did not wind up getting prison time, according to the indictment.
At another point, when two of the businesspeople had not yet come through on their promises to help her with her mortgage, Nadine Menendez texted the senator, “I am soooooo upset.”The actions outlined in the indictment began only months after the Justice Departmentagainst Menendez in January 2018, removing a huge burden from the senator — and national Democrats — as he prepared for a reelection campaign that he won.
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