Facing federal bribery charges, the Democratic senator claims he kept nearly $500,000 in cash at his New Jersey home because of his family’s history in Cuba.
related to an alleged scheme in which prosecutors say the two used the senator’s influence to benefit three New Jersey businessmen and the Egyptian government. In exchange, the couple received “cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and other items of value,” according to the indictment.
Menendez, a Cuban American, has painted the charges as an attack on his Latino heritage, as he did during a 2017 bribery trial that resulted in a hung jury.during a 2017 bribery trial“Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S.
“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies, and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” the senator Monday. “Now this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account, based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.”
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