{"id":2255985,"date":"2024-05-30T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nadine-menendezs-financial-troubles-are-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:55:40","slug":"nadine-menendezs-financial-troubles-are-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nadine-menendezs-financial-troubles-are-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"The bribery scandal revolves around Nadine Menendez&#8217;s financial struggles"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnadine-menendezs-financial-troubles-are-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal%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=2255985&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>Federal prosecutors \u2063presented \u2063a \u2063detailed account of Senator Bob Menendez&#8217;s alleged long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">bribery scheme<\/a> involving his wife Nadine Menendez&#8217;s financial struggles. The indictment accuses the \u200bcouple of accepting bribes in various forms for\u2063 favors benefiting businessmen and\u200d foreign governments. \u200cSenator Menendez, along with \u2064the businessmen, has pleaded not\u200b guilty while\u200b their trial \u2062unfolds.\u2063 Nadine Menendez&#8217;s trial was postponed due to her breast\u2064 cancer diagnosis.  <\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Federal prosecutors\">Federal prosecutors<\/a> spent the past two days laying out the origin\u00a0story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bob-menendez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sen. Bob Menendez's\u00a0\">Sen. Bob Menendez\u2019s<\/a> (D-NJ) alleged yearslong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bribery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"bribery\">bribery<\/a> scheme to a Manhattan jury.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u00a0claims Menendez\u2019s wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3006424\/bob-menendezs-wife-undergoing-treatment-for-breast-cancer-amid-senators-corruption-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nadine Menendez's\">Nadine Menendez\u2019s<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-marco-rubio-presses-state-dept-official-on-whether-russia-will-use-chemical-biological-weapons\/\" title=\"\u2018100%?\u2019 Marco Rubio Presses State Dept Official On Whether Russia Will Use Chemical, Biological Weapons\">dire financial situation<\/a> was the catalyst for what they said was a five<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gold-bars-confiscated-at-senator-menendezs-residence-linked-to-2013-armed-robbery\/\" title=\"Gold bars found at Senator Menendez's home connected to 2013 robbery\">-year bribery conspiracy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) leaves the Manhattan federal court after the second day of jury selection in his trial, Tuesday, May, 14, 2024, in New York. The Democrat has pleaded not guilty to bribery, extortion, fraud, and obstruction of justice, along with acting as a foreign agent of Egypt. (AP Photo\/Stefan Jeremiah)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-jeff-van-drew-mulling-challenge-against-sen-bob-menendez\/\" title=\"GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew considering running against Sen. Bob Menendez.\">federal indictment accuses<\/a> the one-time power couple of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/master-of-disguise-russia-leaks-photos-of-wagner-chief-prigozhin-in-various-costumes-after-house-raid\/\" title=\"Russia leaks photos of Wagner chief Prigozhin in different disguises following house raid.\">including gold bars<\/a>, furniture, and wads of cash, in exchange for the Democratic senator\u2019s willingness to grease the wheels in deals that benefited\u00a0three businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>Menendez is on trial with two of the New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes. They, along with the Menendezes, have pleaded not guilty. A third man has pleaded guilty and is scheduled to testify. Nadine Menendez\u2019s trial was postponed until July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3006424\/bob-menendezs-wife-undergoing-treatment-for-breast-cancer-amid-senators-corruption-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"after she was diagnosed with breast cancer\">after she was diagnosed with breast cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s strategy so far has been to blame his wife, who has been painted as a femme fatale and the common denominator in all of the allegations against him.  <\/p>\n<p>Through a multi-daylong presentation of communications, which included hundreds of texts, emails, and phone calls, prosecutors attempted to show Nadine Menendez was in financial freefall before connecting with her now-husband. They sought to trace the relationship between Menendez and his wife, which began in 2018. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Nadine Menendez, wife of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), leaves Manhattan federal court, Thursday, March. 21, 2024, New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prosecutors sought to show the relationship coincided with a bribery scheme that later led Menendez to help Hana, a Coptic Christian, corner the halal meat market. Specifically, Menendez helped Hana win an exclusive contract with Egypt to certify all meat exported there from the United States as meeting religious requirements, while aiding two other businessmen financially and by helping them obtain favorable results with criminal cases in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors saw some text messages Wednesday in which Menendez and his wife, then known as Nadine Arslanian, exchanged. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can never lose me because I will never let go,\u201d one message from Arslanian to the senator said. <\/p>\n<p>Other communications during the summer of 2019 show Arslanian\u00a0was in serious risk of losing her Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home after failing to make $20,000 in mortgage\u00a0payments. Hana came to the rescue and paid the money so she could stay in her home. After marrying Menendez, he moved in too. Prosecutors argued that the money Hana put up was actually made to help him secure the halal deal.<\/p>\n<p>Menendez has repeatedly said through his lawyers that his wife kept him in the dark about her financial troubles and he did nothing illegal. <\/p>\n<p>The trial is expected to last for at least another month. It is unclear if Menendez will take the stand. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER  \">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Menendez was forced to step down from his role as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after he was arrested and charged. He has said if he is acquitted, he will run in November as an independent.  <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/sen-bob-menendez-signatures-run-independent-bribery-trial-rcna154656?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a> that Menendez has secured the 800 signatures needed to appear on the November ballot as an independent, though his campaign hopes to collect thousands more by the June 4 deadline.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors detailed Sen. Bob Menendez&#8217;s alleged bribery scheme origin over two days in Manhattan. According to the government, Nadine Menendez&#8217;s financial struggles drove a five-year bribery conspiracy. Sen. Menendez left Manhattan federal court amidst the unfolding scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2255986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24081629643910.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24081629643910.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255985","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\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}