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Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife, indicted alongside him last month in a sprawling corruption case, was on the payroll of a medical lab that drew down more than $10 million in federal COVID-19 funding—a company, like the firms at the center of the federal charges, with ties to Egypt.
Nadine Arslanian Menendez faces allegations that she received bribe payments from multiple New Jersey businessmen to influence her husband on behalf of the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, among other crimes. The Justice Department alleges that some illicit payments flowed to Strategic International Business Consultants, a limited liability company she reportedly established for this purpose.
But on his 2021 and 2022 personal financial disclosures,... should I post the rest?
Bob Menendez has had some questionable dealings in the past, but always managed to shrug them off or evade any real examination of his involvement. This time, though, this is so egregious, so massive, that the relatively simple responses in the past may not apply at all, and the bill is about to be settled with some degree of assignment of culpability.
Pinned to the wall, he may not be able to crawl off the pin this time.