Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) denies allegations that he accepted bribes of gold, cash, and mortgage payments in exchange for his influence.
“Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S. Senator and serve with honor and distinction,” he said. “Even worse, they see me as an obstacle in the way of their broader political goals.”Notably, Menendez is being prosecuted by President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice .
Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, laid out allegations against the defendants late Friday morning during a press conference: When they got there, they discovered approximately $500,000 of cash stuffed into envelopes in closets. Some of the cash was stuffed in the senator’s jacket pockets. Some of the cash, some of the envelopes of cash, contained Daibes’s fingerprints, Daibes’s DNA. That’s not all. Agents also discovered a lot of gold, gold that was provided by Daibes and Hanna, and the FBI of course found the Mercedes Benz that Uribe had provided them.
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