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Sen. Bob Menendez Hit With NEW Allegations in Corruption Case Connected to Qatar
Federal prosecutors allege Sen. Bob Menendez accepted race car tickets and other gifts from Qatar as part of a years long corruption scheme, with the Gulf nation joining Egypt as another foreign country the New Jersey Democrat is accused of helping while in office.
MailOnline 5 JAN 2024
Scandal-scarred New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was hit with a second superseding federal indictment Tuesday alleging that he took bribes in exchange for an agreement to help the government of Qatar.
Menendez, a Democrat, was already accused of taking bribes, including cash and gold bars, in exchange for improperly helping the Egyptian government.
The new indictment doesn't add to the formal counts Menendez faces, which include conspiring to commit bribery and to act as a foreign agent, but it adds new allegations tied to Qatar, a wealthy Persian Gulf emirate that has been key to U.S. hostage negotiations with Hamas.
“The government’s new allegations stink of desperation," Menendez lawyer Adam Fee, a former federal anti-corruption prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
"This latest Indictment only exposes the lengths to which these hostile prosecutors will go to poison the public before a trial even begins. But these new allegations don’t change a thing, and their theories won’t survive the scrutiny of the court or a jury," Fee said.
Prosecutors allege the senator took money and gold bars while knowing he was expected to perform acts that would benefit the Qatari government and help another defendant, Fred Daibes, get a multimillion-dollar investment from a fund tied to that government.
Menendez knew he was expected to take actions that would help Qatar to induce a Qatari investment company to invest with Daibes, according to prosecutors.
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