Prosecutor's allege the senator from New Jersey helped a businessman get a meat monopoly.
Wael Hana leaves the federal courthouse in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Hana is a co-defendant with Robert Menendez, the longtime chairman and top Democrat on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is accused of using his position to aid the authoritarian government of Egypt and to pressure federal prosecutors to drop a case against a friend, among other allegations of corruption. APA former top U.S. agricultural official cast Sen.
Menendez, 70, and his codefendants, along with his wife — who is scheduled for a July trial — have pleaded not guilty to charges lodged against them beginning last fall. Amid the urgent effort, McKinney called Egypt’s choice a “rather draconian decision” that would drive up prices in one correspondence with Egyptian authorities.In so many words, he added, Menendez was telling him to “stand down.”
He said he told them to “keep doing what they were doing and if there was any heat to take, I would take it.”McKinney said he was preparing to contact the senator a second time to discuss his concerns when he learned that the FBI was investigating how the certification of meat to Egypt ended up in a single company’s hands.“It’s in the hands of the FBI now,” McKinney said he told them.
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