Embattled Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (NJ) this week accused the FBI of ‘running roughshod over his Fourth Amendment rights’ after they seized gold bars and money from his house final 12 months.
Attorneys for Menendez requested a New York choose to throw out a few of the proof used to indict the senator. They accused the federal authorities of ‘getting back’ at Menendez after he defeated its 2017 prosecution on expenses of affect peddling.
ABC Information reported:
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez needs a New York choose to toss out a lot of the proof within the bribery prosecution in opposition to him, saying investigators illegally searched his residence as revenge as a result of the Democrat defeated a previous prosecution in his house state.
His arguments, delivered by his legal professionals, had been contained in papers filed late Monday in Manhattan federal court docket, the place Menendez faces a Might trial.
In 2017, a federal jury in New Jersey deadlocked on 18 felony expenses in opposition to Menendez and a rich Florida eye physician accused of shopping for his affect with luxurious holidays and marketing campaign contributions. Prosecutors then dropped the case.
“The government’s apparent zeal to ‘get back’ at Senator Menendez for defeating its prior prosecution has overwhelmed its sound judgment,” his legal professionals stated. “The FBI ran roughshod over the Senator’s Fourth Amendment rights, and all evidence collected from those searches must therefore be suppressed.”
In October Embattled Democrat Senator Bob Menendez was charged with performing as a overseas agent in a superseding indictment.
The brand new indictment filed by a federal grand jury in Manhattan claims Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.”
Final month federal prosecutors announced that Democrat U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, and his spouse, have been indicted on expenses of bribery and corruption.
Federal prosecutors out of the Southern District of New York obtained a 3-count indictment in opposition to Bob Menendez and his spouse Nadine Menendez.
Fred Daibes, an actual property developer, New Jersey businessman Wael Hana and Joseph Uribe had been additionally charged.
“The Senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes….. cash, gold, home mortgage payments, jobs, cars, and other things of value” in alternate for “using his power and influence to protect and enrich [New Jersey] businessmen and to benefit the government of Egypt,” US Lawyer for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams stated.
Nadine Menendez was given a “no-show” or “low-show” job, a Mercedes Benz and different issues of worth, Damian Williams stated.
Particular brokers found $500,000 of money stuffed into envelopes in closets. “Some of the cash was stuffed in the Senator’s jacket pockets. Some of the envelopes of cash contained Daibes’ fingerprints and Daibes’ DNA,” Williams stated at a press convention final month.
proof images present money, Mercedes and gold bars
Menendez beforehand used the race card after he was indicted.
“It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere,” Menendez stated.
Earlier this month Bob Menendez was hit with a second superseding indictment for praising Qatar in alternate for luxurious watches.
“Menendez provided Daibes with these statements so that Daibes could share them with the Qatari Investor and a Qatari government official associated with the Qatari Investment Company,” the indictment stated, in response to NBC News.
Regardless of being below federal indictment for performing as a overseas agent, Menendez continues to be attending categorized briefings.
