Gold and Egypt are at the heart of the indictment
searched the home of Bob Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator, in June last year, they found $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden cash. Some of the money, stuffed in envelopes, was hidden in clothes, including jackets with Mr Menendez’s name stitched into them that were hanging in his wardrobe.
The three-count indictment also asserts that Mr and Mrs Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, who were also charged. The bribes the couple are accused of taking include home mortgage payments, compensation for a “low or no-show job”, home furnishings and a Mercedes-Benz. Mr Menendez denies any wrongdoing. He said the prosecutors are making “false claims” against him and his wife.
In May 2018 the senator allegedly told Mr Hana that a government ban on sales of arms and ammunition to Egypt had been lifted. Mr Hana then texted this information to an Egyptian official. That July, Mr Menendez texted his wife to tell Mr Hana that he was going to “sign off” on a sale of $99m-worth of ammunition to Egypt. Mrs Menendez then forwarded the text to Mr Hana, who forwarded it to two Egyptian officials. One responded with a “thumbs up” emoji.
This is not Mr Menendez’s first indictment. Scandal and investigation have dogged him for nearly two decades, even as his political career thrived. In 2015 he was accused of accepting free flights on a private plane in exchange for lobbying on the owner’s behalf in a billing dispute and helping to process visas. The case went to trial in 2017, and ended with a hung jury.
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