United States | News & Politics

7245 readers

152 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

195

Sen. Bob Menendez and wife indicted on bribery charges; DOJ seizes gold bars and $500,000 | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spaghettiwestern to c/[email protected]

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Prosecutors allege the bribes included gold, cash, home mortgage payments, compensation for a “low-or-no-show job” and a luxury vehicle.

Senate Democratic Caucus rules will force Menendez to step aside as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, but he can still serve on the panel.

Beginning in April, his wife sold gold bars worth as much as $400,000, according to the senator’s most recent financial disclosure form.

The conspiracy counts also charge his wife Nadine, and three people described as New Jersey associates and businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.

Yet Hana met Menendez in his office along with others, including an Egyptian intelligence official, in May 2019, asking for help fending off the US agency’s opposition.

Two days later, Menendez allegedly called an Agriculture Department official, asking them to stop opposing Hana’s venture.

The original article contains 765 words, the summary contains 135 words. Saved 82%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!