Another Day Another Corruption Investigation for Senator Bob Menendez

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Paramus NJ, another day another corruption investigation of  Senator Bob Menendez . The Justice Department  is once again investigating Garden State Senator and some would suggest Dominican Republic Senator Bob Menendez. The investigation dates back to at least 2019.

Hoping Democrat Immunity continues to hold  lawyers for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) are expected to meet with federal prosecutors in the coming weeks as the Justice Department nears a decision on whether to charge the powerful lawmaker after a years-long corruption probe.

It’s unclear what potential counts could be leveled against the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman or whether his wife, 56-year-old Nadine Arslanian, has been implicated in the government’s investigation . According to the Wall Street Journal, federal investigators executed search warrants against New Jersey businessman Wael Hana, who runs the only company allowed to certify meat exports to Egypt as halal and is an associate of Arslanian.

The Southern District of New York’s probe into both Menendez and Arslanian , who had been struggling financially and facing foreclosure on her home before marrying the senator in 2020 — has focused on whether they received unreported luxury gifts, including a car and a Washington apartment, in return for political favors, according to reports.

The DOJ’s current investigation is separate from a 2015 probe that resulted in bribery and corruption charges against the Garden State senator and ended in a mistrial two years later with the jury deadlocked.

In the 2015 case, prosecutors alleged that Menendez, who has served in the Senate since 2006, accepted nearly $1 million in private jet flights, vacations, and other gifts from Florida ophthalmologist Dr. Salomon Melgen in exchange for acquiring visas for the doctor’s foreign girlfriends.

At the time investigators also alleged that Menendez received hefty political donations in exchange for helping Melgen secure lucrative government contracts.

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