Menendez Took Bribes In Newly Alleged Qatar Scheme Even After FBI Searches, Feds Say – By Josh Kovensky (Talking Point Memo) / Jan 2, 2023
Manhattan federal prosecutors added new details, but no new charges, in an updated indictment.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday said that Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) alleged bribery scheme was even more brazen than previously thought. In addition to accusing the Democratic senator of shilling for a new country, a superseding indictment alleges that Menendez continued to participate in the purported bribery scheme long after FBI agents first approached him in the investigation.
Manhattan federal prosecutors tacked on 15 paragraphs of new allegations in which they say that Menendez agreed to use his position as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit the government of Qatar as part of an alleged scheme involving a New Jersey real estate developer and political fundraiser.
The updated indictment also accused Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, of engaging in a cover up after federal agents first executed search warrants on Menendez’s home in June 2022.
