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Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez just received new charges.
The new charges allege that Menendez received gifts from a real estate company and a Qatari investment company.
This was related to official activities in support of the Qatari government.
Prosecutors said Menendez received cash and gold bars for his role in inducing an investment firm with ties to the Qatari government to invest in New Jersey real estate developer Fred Dives.
According to the indictment, while the investment firm was considering whether to invest in the Dives project, the senator, who held the top position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made several public appearances supporting the Qatari government. made a statement. According to the indictment, Mr. Menendez also provided the statement to Mr. Deibes so that he could share it with Qatari officials and investors before Mr. Deibes released it.
The new details add to the corruption allegations Menendez already faces, ranging from the Garden State to Qatar to Egypt.
Prosecutors allege that Menendez used his influence to try to secure the appointment of a New Jersey district attorney that he believed he could manipulate to derail a criminal prosecution of Duives. While Dybez was being prosecuted in 2021, Menendez introduced him to an investor who was a member of the Qatari royal family and the president of an investment company who was looking to invest millions of dollars in the Dybez project. says the indictment.
Sen. Bob Menendez has recently been highly critical of some of the Biden administration's foreign policy decisions.
At the time of the September indictment, some analysts noted that the charges came after Menendez criticized Biden for unfreezing $6 billion in funds needed to release five American prisoners. was.
The new charges come less than two weeks after Menendez criticized Biden for being involved in a prisoner exchange with the Venezuelan dictatorship that led to the release of a key Maduro ally. .
As a result of the December prisoner deal, the United States agreed to release Maduro ally Alex Saab in exchange for the extradition of Leonard Francis to Venezuela in what one US official once described as “the most brazen bribery conspiracy in US Navy history.'' He is facing a federal sentence for what he called “an act.” ”
Justice Department officials had been seeking to extradite Francisco, but Menéndez did not feel the negotiations would benefit the United States, saying the White House had “completely agreed to release one of President Maduro's most important allies.” He accused them of having entered into a “top secret agreement.”
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