Posted on 05/30/2024 1:27:00 AM PDT by Libloather
NEW YORK — In May 2018, a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer asked a State Department official how many Americans were “posted” in the American embassy in Egypt, but with a cryptic condition: “Don’t ask why I’m asking.”
The official, Tiernen Miller, emailed the staffer back saying that they would have to ask for the information — and that “someone is going to ask why.”
“Menendez is asking,” the committee staffer replied, referring to New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — then the top Democrat on the powerful Senate panel.
The email exchange was just one slice of hundreds of personal emails, text messages, voicemails, photos and other correspondence selected by prosecutors and shown jurors the last two days in Menendez’s bribery trial. More correspondence is expected to be presented Thursday as prosecutors make the case that the senator took bribes to benefit the interests of New Jersey businesspeople and the governments of Egypt and Qatar.
The steady stream of messages shows a minute-by-minute account of how one of the country’s most powerful politicians communicated with his then-girlfriend and allies. An FBI agent has read aloud a spreadsheet of correspondence for hours in court since Tuesday. The records have included accounts of halal meat certifications, mortgage payments to Menendez’s then-girlfriend and dinner meetings with Egyptian officials.
But while prosecutors are making the case piece by piece that the senator took bribes, prosecutor have so far not shown a smoking gun to jurors tying the senator to a quid pro quo.
They have, however, shown a daisy chain of correspondence between Menendez and Egyptian officials that is one component of their case against him.
The senator texted his then-girlfriend, Nadine Arslanian, who is now his wife, information on how many Americans and Egyptians worked at the embassy the morning...
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Where’s the Biden bribery case ???
wasn’t he the one photographed at Epstein’s pedo island with underage girls?
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