Federal agents found more than $480,000 in cash ‘stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing’ in Sen. Bob Menendez’s home, indictment says
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and an exhibit from the indictment against the senator.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images; US District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey has been indicted on bribery charges.
- Federal agents found cash “stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing” in his home.
- This is the second time Menendez has been charged with bribery.
Federal agents found more than $480,000 in cash hidden in Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s home, according to the newly-unsealed indictment against the New Jersey senator.
Menendez is facing bribery charges for the second time in six years.
According to the indictment, federal agents executed search warrants on the New Jersey senator’s home in June 2022, where they found the “fruits” of the bribery agreement that Menendez and his wife, Nadine, had allegedly made with three New Jersey businessmen.
That included more than $480,000 in cash that was “stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe.”
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The indictment alleges that the fingerprints of one of the businessmen were found on some of the envelopes, and that some of the envelopes were “found inside jackets” emblazoned with Menendez’s name.
Exhibits from the federal indictment showing cash on top of Menendez’s jackets.US District Court for the Southern District of New York
In a defiant statement on the indictment, Menendez said that he’s the victim of a “smear campaign” and that prosecutors have “misrepresented the normal work of a Congressional office.”
“Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a US senator,” said Menendez.
Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been accused by federal prosecutors of accepting bribes in return for secretly aiding the Egyptian government.
Specifically, the indictment alleges that “provided sensitive US government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt” in exchange for gifts that included gold bars.
Additionally, Menendez is accused of plotting to give IS EG Halal Certified, a New Jersey company, a monopoly on halal certification on US food exports to Egypt. Nadine Menendez was allegedly also offered a “low-or-no-show job” at the company by businessman Wael “Will” Hana, a long-time friend.
Menendez was previously put on trial for totally separate bribery charges back in 2017. The charges were later dropped, and Menendez went on to win re-election in 2018.
He is up for re-election next year.
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7 responses to “Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey has been indicted on bribery charges.”
I am glad to see this arrogant loud mouthed warmonger taken down several notches. I hope that he is convicted and sentenced to a long term in prison.
This sell-out Zionist loudmouth should’ve been kicked out long time ago but the AIPAC/ADL’s blessings for covering his dirty ass kept him barking till now. I hope he sufferes with very painful disease for his filthy dirty karama!
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You have to understand the Senator cannot support a family on his salary. He has no labor union to represent his interest, so he cannot go on strike for a higher salary. He has to get a second job to earn money. Don’t forget, he is a Democrat and he feels entitled to a little extra. Don’t worry, he probably will be found not guilty by a bench judge appointed by Obama. Remember, Washington is a Democratic City. Ain’t America wonderful. Of course, Trump will be found guilty for something because the judge selected for his trial is a Democrat.
A little humor for this afternoon.
Love it…a real old-time crook, stashing away illegal money in hidden envelopes.
He reminds me of two earlier Democrat politicos forever made famous for the hiding places they chose for their ill-gotten gains. Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell went down in history for stashing his loot in a closet full of cash-laden shoe boxes. Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, who clearly loved cold cash above all else, stored a $90,000 bribe wrapped in tin foil along with a pie crust in the freezer compartment of his refrigerator. The congressman received a 13-year sentence in prison for his bribe. As to the SOS’s punishment for purloining the mysterious $750,000 he was caught dead-handed with, one must enquire of St. Peter, as Mr. Powell failed to take even a single cash-stuffed shoebox with him to the other side.
This SOB has been charged with and suspected of wide-ranging criminality, including child trafficking, for over a decade. You would think he’d have learned to be at least more discrete if not honest. He’s a disgrace to honest Latinos everywhere, as he dares to exploit them in a cheap defense posture. Moreover, as another reader has noted, he’s one of the biggest warmongers, constantly banging the drum for his fellow criminal politician Volidimyr Zelensky. Both deserve to live out their days in the Big House.