Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks throughout a Senate Overseas Relations Committee listening to in March 2023, in Washington, D.C. Menendez faces a brand new allegation that he used his clout to assist a businessman get cope with a Qatari funding fund.
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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks throughout a Senate Overseas Relations Committee listening to in March 2023, in Washington, D.C. Menendez faces a brand new allegation that he used his clout to assist a businessman get cope with a Qatari funding fund.
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NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez launched a member of the Qatari royal household and principal in an organization with ties to the federal government of Qatar to a New Jersey businessman earlier than the corporate invested tens of millions of {dollars} within the businessman’s actual property undertaking, a rewritten indictment alleged Tuesday.
The newest model of the indictment in opposition to the Democrat in Manhattan federal court docket didn’t determine the member of the Qatari royal household, but it surely stated the person was a principal of the Qatari Funding Co.
The indictment stated the Qatari investor then thought-about and negotiated a multimillion-dollar funding in the actual property undertaking deliberate by Fred Daibes, considered one of three businessmen charged within the indictment together with the senator and his spouse. All of them have pleaded not responsible.
Messages left with legal professionals and a spokesperson for Menendez weren’t instantly returned.
Tim Donohue, a lawyer for Daibes, stated he had no quick remark.
No new expenses had been added to the most recent model of an indictment that already charged Menendez in a bribery conspiracy that allegedly enriched the senator and his spouse with money, gold bars and a luxurious automobile. The allegations involving Qatar occurred from 2021 by 2023, the indictment stated.
After his September arrest, the senator gave up his place as chair of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee. He has resisted requires him to resign from his Senate seat.
In response to the indictment, Menendez accepted money and gold bars in change for looking for to induce the Qatari Funding Co. to speculate with Daibes, together with by taking actions favorable to the federal government of Qatar.
The indictment stated that whereas the Qatari Funding Co. was contemplating its funding in the actual property growth owned by Daibes, Menendez made a number of public statements supporting the federal government of Qatar after which supplied them to Daibes so he may share them with the Qatari investor and a Qatari authorities official.
In an earlier model of the indictment, Menendez, his spouse and one of many businessmen had been charged with conspiring to illegally use the senator as an agent of the Egyptian authorities.
Choose Sidney H. Stein, who’s presiding over the case, refused final week to increase a Might 5 trial date after protection legal professionals requested extra time to organize for a trial that they stated already contains over 6.7 million paperwork.