Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is scheduled to look in a Manhattan court docket Monday afternoon the place he’ll enter a “not responsible” plea to a further cost of performing as a overseas agent.
Menendez allegedly served as an agent for the Egyptian authorities throughout his tenure as Chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee. Menendez resigned from his place when the primary indictment was unsealed on September 23, however remained a member of the committee.
The opposite defendants within the indictment – together with his spouse, Nadine Menendez – additionally pleaded not responsible within the superseding indictment final week.
Democratic Senator. Bob Menendez is accused of performing as a overseas agent within the indictment
Democratic US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse Nadine Menendez arrive on the federal courthouse in New York, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (AP Photograph/Seth Wing)
Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, faces a further cost of performing as a overseas agent and accepting a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} in bribes on behalf of the Egyptian authorities by means of his “energy and affect as a senator,” based on the superseding indictment filed by a senator. Grand jury in Manhattan on October 12.
A superseding indictment is an official doc issued by a grand jury that replaces and expands a earlier indictment in a prison case. It’s used when new proof or accusations emerge after the preliminary indictment has been issued. In an earlier assertion to Fox Information Digital after publication, Menendez denied the brand new accusations and insisted that he has at all times been “loyal to just one nation – the USA of America.”
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Democratic US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse Nadine Menendez arrive on the federal courthouse in New York, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (AP Photograph/Jenna Moon)
Menendez, his spouse Nadine, and three different New Jersey businessmen — Wael Hanna, Jose Uribe and Fred Debes — have been first charged within the federal bribery scheme on September 23.
“Amongst different actions, Menendez supplied delicate info to the U.S. authorities and took different steps that secretly assisted the Egyptian authorities,” the indictment mentioned.
“It was half and function of the conspiracy that Robert Menendez, defendant, and others recognized and unknown, performing as public officers, straight and not directly, have been to demand, request, obtain, settle for and comply with obtain and ‘settle for one thing of worth personally and to a different particular person and entity, in change for influencing “In performing an official act or urging him to do an act and to not carry out an act that violates his official obligation,” the indictment states.
Democratic Senator Bob Menendez faces indictment on bribery costs
Democratic US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey arrives on the federal courthouse in New York, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (AP Photograph/Seth Wing)
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The brand new indictment reveals a photograph of Menendez, Nadine, and Hana with unidentified Egyptian officers in Menendez’s Senate workplace in 2018. Prosecutors allege the assembly included conversations about “overseas navy financing to Egypt.”
FBI and IRS prison investigators allege that Menendez and his spouse accepted a number of gold bullion and different items from Debes, a New Jersey developer and former financial institution president accused of banking crimes. Menendez allegedly labored to assist appoint a prosecutor sympathetic to Daibes, based on the indictment.
The unsealed indictment alleges that from 2018 by means of at the least 2022, Menendez and his spouse, Nadine, “engaged in a lewd relationship” with Daibes, Hanna and Uribe.
The couple is accused of accepting “a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} in bribes in change for utilizing Menendez’s energy and affect as a senator to hunt to guard and enrich Hanaa, Uribe and Daibes and to learn the Arab Republic of Egypt.”