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Robert Menendez
Senator (NJ) 2006–2024
convicted
Former US Senator from New Jersey convicted in July 2024 on 16 federal counts including bribery, extortion, acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, and obstruction.
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Robert Menendez, a former U.S. Senator from New Jersey (2006–2024), faced two major federal corruption cases during his tenure.
In 2015, he was indicted on 14 counts of bribery and conspiracy related to gifts from donor Salomon Melgen. This case ended in a 2017 mistrial, and charges were dismissed in 2018. In April 2018, the Senate Ethics Committee admonished him for violating Senate rules by accepting impermissible gifts and failing to disclose them.
In 2023, he was indicted for a bribery scheme involving cash, gold bars, and a luxury vehicle in exchange for official acts benefiting the governments of Egypt and Qatar. On July 16, 2024, a jury convicted him on all charges, including bribery, wire fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. He resigned on August 20, 2024, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison on January 29, 2025.
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Sen. Robert “Bob” Menendez [D-NJ, 2006-2024], former Senator for New Jersey - GovTrack.us
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Sen. Robert Menendez Faces Corruption Charges
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROBERT MENENDEZ (2016) | FindLaw
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Overview 1. ROBERT MENENDEZ, the defendant, is the senior U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey. From at least 2018 up to and including in or about 2022, MENENDEZ and his wife, NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a “Nadine Arslanian,” the defendant, engaged in a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and businessmen—WAEL HANA, a/k/a “Will Hana,” JOSE URIBE, and FRED DAIBES, the defendants—in which MENENDEZ and NADINE MENENDEZ agreed to and did accept hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using MENENDEZ’s power and influence as a Senator to seek to protect and enrich HANA, URIBE, and DAIBES and to benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt. 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. 2. This corrupt relationship resulted in ROBERT MENENDEZ, the defendant, promising to take and taking a series of official acts and breaches of official duty in exchange for bribes that benefitted him both directly, and indirectly through NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a “Nadine Arslanian,” the defendant. Among other things, first, MENENDEZ promised to and did
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