In the home, FBI agents found gold bars worth nearly $150,000 US and cash, mostly in stacks of $100 bills, totalling over $480,000 US. In the garage was a Mercedes-Benz convertible.A supervising agent...
More shocking than the cash or gold, though, were allegations that Menendez had earned some of it by using his powerful perch on the Senate foreign relations committee to take actions that benefited E...
The senator also told his wife to let her Egyptian contacts know that he planned to sign off on $99 million US in tank ammunition.Charges, originally announced last September, were expanded over time,...
Prosecutors also said Sen. Menendez attempted to interfere in a federal criminal prosecution of Daibes, a politically influential real estate developer accused of bank fraud. The U.S. attorney for New...