Prosecutors leveled new allegations of bribery against embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on Tuesday, this time accusing him of taking cash and gold bars to help the government of Qatar.
U.S. Attorney Damien Williams said in a 50-page superseding indictment that Menendez accepted the bribes from a New Jersey real estate developer with the promise that he would “induce” a Qatari company to invest millions in one of the developer’s projects.
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The superseding indictment does not include any new charges aside from the four that Menendez is already facing over allegations he aided the government of Egypt, but it does contain the revelation about Qatar and alleges that Menendez was partaking in bribery acts as recently as 2023.
Menendez, the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, was indicted in the fall over allegations he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to use his influential political position to benefit the Egyptian government.
He was forced to step down as chairman due to the charges, but he remains on the committee as a member and has refused to resign from the Senate despite bipartisan calls from his colleagues for him to do so.
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He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial is currently scheduled for May.
Read the new indictment in full below:
This story is developing.
