{"id":2262904,"date":"2024-06-08T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-witness-in-bob-menendez-bribery-trial-testifies-he-offered-senators-wife-a-car\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T15:43:55","slug":"star-witness-in-bob-menendez-bribery-trial-testifies-he-offered-senators-wife-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-witness-in-bob-menendez-bribery-trial-testifies-he-offered-senators-wife-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Key witness in Bob Menendez bribery case claims he proposed a car for senator&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fstar-witness-in-bob-menendez-bribery-trial-testifies-he-offered-senators-wife-a-car%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=2262904&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>The summary\u200b is about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indicted-senator-bob-menendezs-approval-rating-plunges-to-single-digits\/\" title=\"Senator Bob Menendez's approval rating drops to single digits following indictment.\">ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/powerful-chicago-democrat-found-guilty-on-federal-racketeering-corruption-charges\/\" title=\"Chicago Democrat Convicted of Racketeering and Corruption\">federal corruption trial<\/a><\/a> of Senator Bob Menendez \u2062in Manhattan. \u2062A New Jersey businessman\u200c named Jose\u200c Uribe testified that he had bribed Menendez by giving his wife, Nadine Menendez, a Mercedes-Benz convertible. In exchange, Menendez was supposed to\u200b use his influence\u2063 to prevent any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-compile-list-of-parents-who-question-racial-curriculum-plot-war-on-them\/\" title=\"Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them\">criminal investigations<\/a> into Uribe&#8217;s company. The prosecution&#8217;s star witness, \u2063Uribe has pleaded \u200cguilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-democrats-election-heist-too-big-to-fail\/\" title=\"Is the Democrats\u2019 Election Heist \u2018Too Big to Fail\u2019?\">multiple state<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-lockdown-critic-dr-simone-gold-sentenced-to-2-months-in-prison\/\" title=\"Vaccine, lockdown critic Dr. Simone Gold sentenced to 2 months in prison\">federal crimes related<\/a> to his businesses. He also testified that Menendez&#8217;s \u2064ally, co-defendant Wael Hana, had told him he could \u200dmake state criminal investigations disappear in exchange for\u200b $200,000 to $250,000. Uribe agreed to the deal and hosted a fundraiser for Menendez in 2018. This\u2064 trial\u200b is part of a larger \u200bbribery scheme involving the Menendezs, according to the prosecutors.  <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"New Jersey\">New Jersey<\/a> businessman testified Friday that he bribed Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bob-menendez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sen. Bob Menendez\">Bob Menendez<\/a> (D-NJ) by giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3022913\/nadine-menendez-financial-troubles-center-bob-menendez-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"his wife\">his wife<\/a> a Mercedes-Benz\u00a0convertible on the condition the\u00a0sitting senator would \u201cstop and kill\u201d any criminal investigation looking into his company. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/menendez-uribe-federal-bribery-indictment-a7f1d893f1ee387f079161011e9dd37e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jose Uribe\">Jose Uribe<\/a>, the prosecution\u2019s star witness in Menendez\u2019s federal corruption trial in Manhattan, told jurors he made the deal with Nadine Menendez, who went by Nadine Arslanian at the time, during a March 2019 telephone call. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Jose Uribe leaves Manhattan federal court, Friday, June 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo\/Adam Gray)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNadine will contact Sen. Menendez, use his influence and power to do anything possible to stop and kill investigations, so my family \u2026 so it doesn\u2019t get to my family, and my family doesn\u2019t get hurt,\u201d Uribe testified.\u00a0\u201cShe agreed to the terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have spent the past four weeks trying to piece together what they claim is a sprawling, yearslong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3001819\/bob-menendez-corruption-trial-everything-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"bribery scheme\">bribery scheme<\/a> by the Menendezs. <\/p>\n<p>Uribe, the prosecution\u2019s lone cooperating witness, has pleaded guilty to multiple state and federal crimes linked to his businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Uribe testified his friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3008005\/bob-menendez-bribery-trial-key-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wael Hana\">Wael Hana<\/a>, a co-defendant in the trial, told him in early 2018 there were multiple state criminal investigations swirling\u00a0around the trucking company of a friend of his as well as his own insurance business. Hana allegedly said he could make those\u00a0investigations disappear if Uribe was willing to spend $200,000 to $250,000. Uribe agreed. Hana told Uribe he would go to\u00a0Arslanian, who had started dating the senator that year, and make the deal. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Nadine Menendez and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrive at Manhattan federal court, Monday, March 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo\/Jeenah Moon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Uribe held a July 13, 2018, political fundraiser for Menendez that raised $50,000. There was no mention of the backroom deal at the party or afterparty, both of which the senator attended. Later that year, an investigator from the attorney general\u2019s office asked to interview one of Uribe\u2019s employees. Uribe testified he was \u201cnot happy\u201d and texted Hana\u00a0to get the senator to intervene in the\u00a0probes.\u00a0Hana set up an October 2018 dinner meeting but there was no mention of the deal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing was discussed there of value, I will say,\u201d Uribe testified. \u201cIt was a pointless, a pointless meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uribe said he began communicating directly with Nadine Arslanian in March 2019 and promised that he would buy her a car if she delivered on the deal. Uribe\u2019s testimony will continue Monday with cross examination.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext week, we get the truth,\u201d Menendez said just before stepping into a car Friday afternoon at the federal courthouse. <\/p>\n<p>Menendez has been charged with bribery, fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice, and acting as a foreign agent of Egypt. He has pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n<p>Nadine Menendez has also been charged, but her trial has been delayed for health reasons. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Jersey<\/a> real estate developer Fred Daibes and Hana are on trial alongside Menendez. <\/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 FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim they also showered Menendez with expensive\u00a0gifts, including cash and gold bars, and are accused of being players in an international bribery scheme that includes a\u00a0halal meat monopoly, a sheikh, and a Qatari investment.\u00a0They have pleaded not guilty and claim the gifts were given out of generosity. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Laura Pomerantz has accused Menendez of putting \u201cgreed first\u201d and told\u00a0jurors he sold out his constituents, during opening arguments. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey businessman testified that he bribed Senator Bob Menendez by giving his wife a Mercedes-Benz convertible to halt any criminal probes into his company. Jose Uribe, the key witness in Menendez&#8217;s Manhattan federal corruption trial, disclosed the arrangement to jurors on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2262905,"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\/bob-menendez-court-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262904","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\/bob-menendez-court-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262904","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=2262904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}