A Senate staffer has testified at a bribery trial that planning for Sen. Bob Menendez's 2021 trip to Egypt and Qatar got “weird” after the Democrat directed that Egypt be involved in the process.
2021 trip to Egypt and Qatar got “weird” after the Democrat directed that Egypt be included in the process, a Senate staffer testified Monday.
Then, prosecutors say, he aided a prominent New Jersey real estate developer by acting favorably to Qatar’s government so the businessman could score a lucrative deal with a Qatari investment fund. Although foreign embassies were routinely notified about any U.S. legislators who were traveling their way, Arkin portrayed it as unusual that a trip by a U.S. senator would be planned in conjunction with a foreign embassy.
Arkin said another Senate staffer working to plan the trip wrote to her that “all of this Egypt stuff is very weird.”
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