Menendez and his wife allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes from New Jersey business executives in exchange for using the senator’s power and influence to help them, according to the indictment.
The indictment ties Menendez and his wife to three business executives: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and real estate developer Fred Daibes, all of whom also are charged. Federal agents searched Menendez’s New Jersey home around June 2022, according to the indictment. “Over $480,000 in cash—much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe—was discovered in the home, along with over $70,000 in NADINE MENENDEZ’s safe deposit box,” the indictment says.
The senator is also accused of improperly pressuring a U.S. Department of Agriculture official “for the purpose of protecting a business monopoly granted to Wael Hana by Egypt and used in part to fund the bribes being paid to Menendez through Nadine Menendez.” Menendez also allegedly “promised to and did use his influence and power and breach his official duty to seek to disrupt a criminal investigation and prosecution” by his state’s attorney general involving Uribe, according to the indictment.
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