Cash from Apache-maker Boeing flowed to Menendez’s PAC after an alleged illicit meeting over an Egyptian chopper sale.
cashed in on pro-Egypt actions in more ways than one, campaign finance filings and the latest indictments in his federal corruption case indicate.prosecutors filed last week describes a meeting between the New Jersey Democrat and several alleged co-conspirators—including his wife, Nadine Arslanian—on May 21, 2019 held with a member of Cairo’s military intelligence agency.
In the following days, Menendez—whose leadership position on the Foreign Relations Committee granted him power over the sale’s finalization—allegedly conducted research on the victim, April Corley of California. Meanwhile, the Egyptian official reportedly promised accused co-conspirator Wael Hana via an encrypted messaging service that Menendez “will sit very comfortably” should he make the problem with the chopper package go away. According to the indictment, Hana texted back “orders.
But what’s indisputable is that just weeks after the meeting outlined in the indictment, Boeing—the manufacturer of the Apache—gave its first-ever maximum contribution from its political action committee to Menendez’s New Millennium PAC. The $5,000 gift vastly outstripped the only previous donation the aerospace contractor had made to New Millennium: $1,000 in 2013, during the senator’s previous tenure as Foreign Relations Committee chairman.
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