Senator Bob Menendez has pleaded not guilty over an alleged scheme that involved taking bribes - including cash and gold bars - from foreign officials.
of AUKUS, the military pact in which the US and Britain will help Australia acquire nuclear-propelled submarines.
He also called out Beijing for “aggressively trying to influence Australian politics and civil society, buying critical infrastructure, like port facilities in Darwin, making political donations, even hacking Australian parliament and major political parties”.“This is a critical moment in which the United States needs to show we are serious about our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” he said.
Federal agents searched his New Jersey home in June last year and found more than $480,000 in cash, some stuffed in envelopes and hidden in clothing, gold bars worth more than $100,000 and other items allegedly paid for by the three businessmen. Fellow New Jersey Senator Cory Booker was a character witness for him in the previous case, but has since joined the chorus of Democrats urging him to stand down.
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