Senator Bob Menendez and Wife Indicted for Bribery

US Senator Menendez charged with bribery, says he will not resign

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The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said Menendez, 69, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cash and gold bars in exchange for using his power and influence as New Jersey's senior senator to benefit the government of Egypt and interfere with law enforcement probes into the businessmen. Menendez has been an important ally to fellow Democrat Joe Biden as the president has sought to reassert U.S. influence on the world stage, rally support for congressional aid to Ukraine, and push back against a rising China.

This isn't the first time Menendez has been charged with bribery. The last time it ended in a hung jury. Menendez issued the following statement:

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"It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere," he said in a statement late Friday.

He's actually suggesting that Joe Biden's justice department is targeting him because he's Latino! Doesn't make an iota of sense politically.

Senator Menendez's wife of three years at center of bribery allegations

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In return for Menendez's promise to help Egypt benefit from U.S. military sales, Hana rewarded [Menendez's wife] Arslanian with a no-show job at his company and $23,000 to get her home out of foreclosure proceedings, the indictment said. In June of 2022, officials searched the apartment Menendez and Arslanian shared in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and found more than $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in cash. Arslanian's safe deposit box contained another $70,000. Arslanian, a registered Republican, according to voting records, is accused of setting up a company called Strategic International Business Consultants with Menendez's help to receive bribery payments. She would tell an unidentified relative, according to the indictment: "Every time I'm a middle person for a deal, I am asking to get paid and this is my consulting company."

His wife wasn't very good at op-sec it seems. She blabbed about it to the wrong person. Anyway, that's a hell of a lot of cash. Who keeps such sums of money lying around in cash? Someone who doesn't want it showing up in financial statements like tax returns perhaps?

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