{"id":1436485,"date":"2022-04-13T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436485"},"modified":"2022-04-13T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T02:14:59","slug":"democrat-rep-cuellar-not-under-investigation-after-fbi-raid-of-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-rep-cuellar-not-under-investigation-after-fbi-raid-of-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. Cuellar Not Under Investigation After FBI Raid of His Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-rep-cuellar-not-under-investigation-after-fbi-raid-of-his-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rep.-Henry-Cuellar-D-TX-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) is not the target of a federal investigation that resulted in the FBI raiding his home and office in Laredo, Texas, according to his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last several weeks, the Justice Department, in a conversation I had with the prosecutor, let me know that Congressman Cuellar is not a target of this investigation,\u201d Cuellar\u2019s attorney, Joshua Berman,\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rep-henry-cuellar-target-doj-investigation-home-office-raided-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In January, federal agents raided his home as part of an ongoing investigation into various U.S.-based companies and advocacy organizations with ties to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Fox News\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rep-henry-cuellar-target-doj-investigation-home-office-raided-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cuellar and his wife traveled to Azerbaijan in 2013, according to federal disclosures, and his office announced a partnership in 2015 between Texas A&#038;M International University and the Assembly of Friends of Azerbaijan, a Houston-based nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman has denied wrongdoing in the probe from the outset and pledged to continue his run for re-election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Cuellar has made clear that he did nothing wrong and he wanted to absolutely fully cooperate at all times with the Justice Department\u2019s investigation, which he has done from day one through today, and will continue to do so,\u201d his attorney\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rep-henry-cuellar-target-doj-investigation-home-office-raided-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar\u2019s progressive challenger, 28-year-old Jessica Cisneros, received boosts from incumbent Democrats like Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) following the news of the raid on Cuellar\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar now faces a runoff election in late May for his tenth term in Congress with Cisneros after he narrowly\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/cuellar-cisneros-headed-runoff-closely-watched-democratic-primary-texas-nbc-n1290565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missed<\/a>\u00a0the majority threshold required to secure his nomination in March\u2019s primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar is one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress. He has been critical of Biden\u2019s immigration agenda. In addition, he strayed away from party lines during the House\u2019s recent\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/04\/01\/henry-cuellar-marijuana-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote<\/a>\u00a0to legalize marijuana. Cuellar was also the only Democrat to vote\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/09\/24\/congress-reproductive-rights-texas-abortion-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against<\/a>\u00a0codifying a right to abortion into federal law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) is not the target of a federal investigation that resulted in the FBI raiding his home and office in Laredo, Texas, according to his attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}