{"id":2236694,"date":"2024-05-03T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-cuellar-charged-with-accepting-foreign-bribes\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:40:42","slug":"dem-rep-cuellar-charged-with-accepting-foreign-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-cuellar-charged-with-accepting-foreign-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Representative Cuellar Accused of Accepting Foreign Bribes"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdem-rep-cuellar-charged-with-accepting-foreign-bribes%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=2236694&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--><p>Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar from Texas and his wife Imelda have been accused of accepting and laundering over $500,000 in foreign bribes. The bribes, totaling $598,000, came from\u200b entities \u2063in Azerbaijan and Mexico. Allegedly, \u2063the money was funneled through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-jones-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-over-sandy-hook-defamation-lawsuits\/\" title=\"Alex Jones\u2019 Infowars Files For Bankruptcy Over Sandy Hook Defamation Lawsuits\">shell companies owned<\/a> by Imelda, with Henry promising to \u2062promote their interests in the U.S. Cuellar denies the \u200dallegations. Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar from Texas and his wife Imelda face accusations\u2062 of accepting and laundering more than $500,000 in foreign bribes\u2063 from entities in Azerbaijan\u200d and Mexico. The funds were allegedly channeled through\u2064 shell companies owned by Imelda, with Cuellar pledging to advance their agendas in the \u2063U.S. Cuellar has denied the charges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D,. Texas) and his wife Imelda have been charged with accepting and laundering more than half a million dollars in foreign bribes, according to an indictment released by the Department of Justice on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuellar and his wife allegedly <\/span><span>pocketed<\/span><span>  &#8220;at least $598,000 in bribes from two foreign entities&#8221;: an oil and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lobbyists-for-putins-pipeline-dodge-foreign-agent-laws\/\" title=\"Lobbyists for Putin\u2019s Pipeline Dodge Foreign Agent Laws\">gas company controlled<\/a> by the Azerbaijani government and a bank headquartered in Mexico City. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The payments were then allegedly laundered &#8220;through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar, who performed little to no legitimate work under [sham consulting] contracts.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Federal prosecutors claim that the Democratic congressman in return for the bribes agreed to use &#8220;the power and prestige of his office to advance [the two companies\u2019] interests in the United States.&#8221; Cuellar allegedly promised to shift U.S. foreign policy in Azerbaijan\u2019s favor, while pledging to alter federal regulations of the financial sector to benefit the Mexican bank and its affiliates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuellar on Friday denied any wrongdoing and appeared in a Houston court alongside his wife. &#8220;I want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,&#8221; Cuellar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Imelda and I have been married for 32 years,&#8221; the Texas Democrat added. &#8220;On top of being an amazing wife and mother, she\u2019s an accomplished businesswoman with two degrees. She spent her career working with banking, tax, and consulting. The allegation that she is anything but qualified and hard working is both wrong and offensive.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuellar\u2019s home and campaign office were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/fbi-raid-us-rep-henry-cuellars-texas-home-office-said-tied-azerbaijan-rcna13005\"><span>raided<\/span><\/a><span>  in January 2022 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-president-trump-spring-a-trap-on-treasonous-democrats-on-election-night\/\" title=\"Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Treasonous Democrats on Election Night?\">federal agents<\/a> during an investigation into Azerbaijan\u2019s influence in the United States, although it is not yet clear whether the indictment is related to the raid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Henry Cuellar does not put Texas first; he puts himself first,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  Delanie Bomar, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. &#8220;If his colleagues truly believe in putting \u2018people over politics,\u2019 they will call on him to resign. If not\u2014they are hypocrites whose statements about public service aren\u2019t worth the paper they\u2019re written on.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Cuellar is not the first Democratic official to have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/bob-menendez-pleads-not-guilty-to-obstruction-of-justice-charges\/\"><span>faced<\/span><\/a><span>  indictment this year on bribery charges. Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) and his wife Nadine have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/democrat-senator-bob-menendez-charged-with-corruption\/\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span>  of giving political favors to the Egyptian government and three businessmen in exchange for nearly half a million in cash and gold bars worth around $100,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The New Jersey senator\u2019s lawyers on Wednesday said the senator <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/bob-menendezs-lawyers-say-senator-hoarded-cash-gold-because-of-intergenerational-trauma\/\"><span>hoarded<\/span><\/a><span>  13 gold bars and around $480,000 in cash at home due to longstanding and untreated trauma from his family\u2019s experience as Cuban refugees and his father\u2019s suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, Texas) and his wife Imelda face charges for accepting and laundering over $500,000 in foreign bribes. 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