Federal prosecutors are looking into whether an admitted felon helped arrange to give gold bars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez or his wife in exchange for help, sources familiar with the matter tell News 4.
Investigators want to know if Menendez, a Democrat, offered to contact the Justice Department to try to help that man who was accused of banking crimes. Those questions are now before a federal grand jury in Manhattan that is considering whether to hand up corruption charges against the senior senator from New Jersey.
Sources say witnesses are now testifying before that federal grand jury. Part of the investigation centers on the senator's ties to Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and one-time bank chairman. Officials with the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation want to know if Daibes or his associates gave gold bars to the senator's wife, Nadine Arslanian -- gold bars worth as much as $400,000.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/did-sen-bob-menendez-and-wife-improperly-take-gold-bars-from-corrupt-bank-exec/4697207/

Without a doubt they did. Dude should be in prison for life for this...



...along with all of his other crimes

Always appeared to be super slimy .

'Worthless boomer payment'

If he had an R by his name Republican would have been the first word in the article.

Damn! Not even Senator Menendez has faith in the dollar anymore.

Democrat you say? Well I'm sure they will throw the book

Ever wonder how they all get rich in office?

Yea, that yellow metal ain’t worth nuttin.
Hell the old man from pawn stars would of offered tree fiddy for it.
Now bitcoin…

It's just the usual business of politics.  Nothing to see here.

A Dem from NJ is corrupt? I don't believe it.

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This guy sucks at corruption, he's been caught a half dozen times.  He's so blatant about it that this is the second or third time the uniparty had to acknowledge it officially.  Dude needs to start a foundation to skim from or ghostwrite a book that gets bought in bulk and shredded like the smart politicians do.

So that is how the swamp keeps these things from having a paper trail.  I wonder how many more accept tribute via gold or bitcoin.

Joe and Hunter said those are rookie numbers.

did they indict trump also?

He skated on banging underage girls a few years back, IIRC.

Art and diamonds are the Tier  1 grifts.

New Jersey? Corrupt?

Get the fuck outta here…

Well, at least he didn't chant any pro-American phrases.  Phew.

Do we really trunk they all aren't taking cash? They all wind up as multi millionaires making 174k per year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-22/nj-senator-robert-menendez-indicted-by-federal-prosecutors#xj4y7vzkg

Was he getting on a yacht with cases and cases of Ensure?

It’s not the first time he’s been caught accepting bribes.

In for the booking photo and perp walk.  Oh, wait, nevermind

At least this time the senator wasn't accused of having intercourse w/ underage ?? hookers in a private plane as well as a Florida doctor's house in Puerto Rico.

Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and his wife are indicted for 'accepting $400,000 in gold bars from mob-linked New Jersey developer in return for favors'





Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian have been indicted by a federal grand jury over corruption allegations. The panel returned the indictment over claims he had an improper relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. The investigation focused on a luxury car, gold bars and an apartment allegedly received by Menendez and his wife. The FBI and IRS investigated whether developer Fred Daibes gave wife Nadine up to $400,000 in gold bars.  



Gold bars pictured in the indictment




Cash was found in envelopes during a June 2022 raid of Menendez home





Menendez and wife Nadine in Italy earlier this month


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Shocker

Message to other Demonrats - make sure your payments to the Big Guy are on time and complete, or you, too, will be thrown to the wolves.

lol, his wife has Jersey Shore written all over her.

Nothing will happen as usual. Republicans will kick and scream for a week and go back to pretending they care about immigration.
Yawn...

I forgot about this.

Menendez's last corruption charges were dropped during the Trump Administration.

Then his longtime friend and convicted felon doctor, who tortured elderly patients and defrauded taxpayers, had his sentence commuted by Trump. https://t.co/ej1pJVxfRp

Sunny McSunnyface  (@sunnyright) September 22, 2023

A democrat charged with corruption?

HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?

He must be out of favor with the uniparty

His wife has Dr Jill's fashion sense.

Kharn

Must be part of that chess to take down the deep state

Wasn’t menendez the guy fucking children in South America? That’s probably a requirement to join the political class but I think he actually got caught

Didn't this same Senator squeak by on under age kid didling in Jamaca a few years ago?

What's wrong didn't the Sen. pay his bribe er "Donation" to  The D party?
Politics is a Mafia. I believe they keep some patsy on the fringe to toss to the wolves to appease the masses when the heat gets too hot for the big players.
It's a big club and he wasn't in it.
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I think the claim was that same Doctor friend was the one hiring them for Menendez.

Trump was in real estate development in New York and New Jersey for decades but nobody has ever accused him of giving bribes to get projects completed.  He's either the most ethical real estate developer in NY/NJ or outing his bribes would implicate the recipients, none of whom would have R's after their name.

Surprised they'd do much to jeopardize the makeup of the Senate, though the NJ governor would just appoint another leftist.  They'd lose their seniority at least.

Seriously though. That’s a small amount of cash compared to what we’re used to hearing about. I’ve had more than that many times and it doesn’t even raise an eyebrow unless you’re truly poor. (Not intended to be a poors insult. But seriously. The cash in that photo isn’t all that much.) reminds me of the cops that line up all the bullets and one dollar bills for a photo to make it look worse.

The asshole already beat corruption charges once. I guess he felt like he was invincible. Seems like he may actually go down for this one. He needs to resign, but he wont. These creatures have no shame.

The indictment claims the couple had an improper relationship with three New Jersey businessmen: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes, who allegedly paid the couple in exchange for Menendez to use his influence in Washington D.C. to their benefit.

The probe also looked at other bribes allegedly paid to the couple. A June 2022 raid on their New Jersey home found 'over $480,000 in cash - much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe,' the indictment notes, addding Nadine had over $70,000 in a safe deposit box.

It also found two one-kilogram gold bars and eleven one-ounce gold bars.



The indictment accuses Menendez and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using the senator's influence to protect and enrich the businessmen.



'Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,' the indictment said.

The indictment alleges that Menendez tried to disrupt a federal criminal prosecution of Daibes in exchange for the money and other items of value. Daibes is an old friend of Menendez, has fundraised for his Senate campaign, and allegedly has mob ties.

The indictment charges Menendez 'promised to and did use his influence and power' to pressure President Joe Biden to nominate a U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey who Menendez 'believed could be influenced by Menendez with respect to the federal criminal prosecution of Fred Daibes.'

Biden later nominated Phillip Sellinger as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, the top federal prosecutor in the state.

New Jersey authorities have tracked high-ranking mobsters meeting with Daibes repeatedly over the last decade, the Daily Beast reported.

Daibes provided the couple with gold bars and envelopes of cash, the indictment states.

'Multiple gold bars provided by Daibes were found during the court-authorized June 2022 search; of the couple's home, the indictment states. It also says the senator performed a web search for 'how much is one kilo of gold worth' and that the envelopes of cash had the fingerprints of Daibes and his driver.

The indictment also charges the senator with providing 'sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.'





Menendez and Nadine with Hana




Fred Daibes, Chairman and CEO of Daibes Enterprises, in his Edgewater office





Businessman Wael Hana (center) is one of the people who allegedly bribed Menendez



Link to indictment

That's just part of the cash. They had over $460,000 in cash stuffed in envelopes.

This is his second go around. they let him off the hook before. I assume for promises. Looks like he pissed someone off again.

Like Joseph Robinette Biden... if you keep getting caught, and you're still not in prison:
At this point, what difference does it make???

Yeah, I guarantee they also took pictures of the envelopes and also of all the cash laid out as well. That's just normal photographing for evidence, same as the cops do so everything matches inventory, even if it looks silly.

Prison, loss of retirement and other benefits and seizure of the gold.