Rep. Henry Cuellar is accused of relying on his ties with Mexican business and political leaders to set up a bribery scheme
Only one foreign dignitary was at Enrique Peña Nieto’s side as the presidential candidate — soon to be Mexico’s president-elect — watched vote tallies roll in the first Sunday of July 2012. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar had recently befriended the former governor from central Mexico and had a place of honor in his election war room.
Henry Cuellar and his wife were charged with bribery and money laundering. Here’s what we know. But U.S. prosecutors say the prosperity of his constituents wasn’t Cuellar’s sole concern. In a federal indictment unsealed this month, they accused Cuellar of exploiting his connections in Mexico to line his own pockets through a bribery scheme that began in 2014 and continued until 2021.
Henry Cuellar is facing bribery allegations in an election year. Could Republicans flip his seat? After the 2012 election in Mexico, Cuellar told the New York Times he had advised Peña Nieto on his first public comments about confronting Mexico’s notoriously violent criminal organizations. And he became the president-elect’s surrogate, introducing him around Washington, D.C., and, later, explaining the machinations of Peña Nieto’s administration to U.S. news outlets.
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