A federal grand jury has filed a second superseding indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., following previous allegations of accepting bribes.
The new allegations say Menendez made positive statements about Qatar to help a New Jersey developer get a multimillion-dollar investment from a company tied to the country. The developer cited in the indictment is Fred Daibes, who has also been charged in the case.
During the time of the discussions in late 2021 into 2022 for the investment in the deal, Menendez allegedly made a number of statements supportive of Qatar.
Someone could probably come up with a job title that sounds more corrupt than “New Jersey developer,” but I’m not that person. And you can’t even blame gerrymandering on this one getting elected, he’s a senator. Oh, New Jersey.
Bob Menendez, selling out his country to have a young trophy wife
From that picture and article description of her I wouldn’t call her a trophy wife.
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The new allegations say Menendez made positive statements about Qatar to help a New Jersey developer get a multimillion-dollar investment from a company tied to the country.
He said prosecutors assembled a string of baseless assumptions and bizarre conjectures based on routine, lawful contacts between a Senator and his constituents or foreign officials.
Prosecutors alleged in an indictment in September that Menendez and his wife used his influence to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including “cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and other items of value.”
Menendez, meanwhile, “continued to receive things of value from the Qatari Investment Company,” including tickets to the 2023 Formula One Grand Prix in Miami.
The original indictment charged Menendez, then the chair of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of taking “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in payoffs in return for the use of his influence to enrich Daibes and two other New Jersey businessmen and to benefit the Egyptian government.
Menendez has denied those allegations, saying at the time that they fly “in the face of my long record of standing up for human rights and democracy in Egypt and in challenging leaders of that country."
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