Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar's chief of staff resigns after his boss was indicted for 'taking $600,000 in bribes'... and now the Texas lawmaker faces a staff exodus

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 7 2024 | KATELYN CARALLE

[knighthawk]

Rep. Henry Cuellar's chief of staff quit after the Texas Democrat and his wife were charged by the Justice Department with bribery and fraud.

Jake Hochberg served as Cuellar's top aide since 2021 but left the office on Monday, multiple people familiar with the situation confirmed to Punchbowl News.

The sources say that more staffers are also considering leaving in coming days.

[Billthedrill]

Man, the boss gets 600 large and I only got a Starbucks card for a Christmas bonus? I’d quit too.

[Leaning Right]

> more staffers are also considering leaving in coming days <

I suppose Rep. Cuellar wasn’t sharing his bribes with his staff. And I thought all Democrats were socialists at heart. Share and share alike.

[1Old Pro]

Sleep with the dog, get up with fleas - time to hit the exit door and remove past work experience from your resume.

[ClearCase_guy]

Party affiliation not listed right up front, so you can guess that he’s a Democrat. And he is.

[HYPOCRACY]

It’s literally the first word in the headline.

[mass55th]

RAT Party paying off his staff to further weaken him.

[Gay State Conservative]

Hasn’t Cuellar made comments recently regarding immigration that are not consistent with the Rat Party’s talking points?

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Will this congressional seat be a GOP pickup, or not? …a conservative pickup, or not?

[353FMG]

He is not a democratic rep.

He is a corrupt Democrat, pure and simple.

[packagingguy]

Cuellar went against the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration on illegal immigration. Shortly thereafter the investigation of him started.

This is not an accident.

[chajin]

"Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners." (Johnny Ola, The Godfather Part II)

[stanne]

Representatives taking in more money than their c
Government salaries of 200 k?

How shocking

Yawn

They should investigate AOC and humor multi mil lifestyle for starters. Senator Linda for instance. Pelosi.

No

This guy is one of a few with a district on the border

There is no way this has anything to do with that.

The kids here said hey what the Hew!

I said just go to the Marx Bros in “Horsefeathers”. Cicco says I’d like to take that political position. Groucho hits the desk with the gavel, “sold. It’s yours”

Not more complicated than that

But cellar doing what is normal around there got picked out special Why? His wife’s involvement. Em. No the wives are the worst of them all around Lady Macbeth and her wimpy king of hearts husband

[alloysteel]

First of all, whatever bribes may have been involved, the Biden DOJ would not have gone after a Democrat congressman for simple corruption of this order. Henry Cuellar must have does something REALLY egregious to have attracted so much attention.

Secondly, and WAY more important, is the lack of support Rep. Cuellar has provided to the Biden regime on the security questions in regards to the US-Mexico border. Rep. Cuellar has been especially critical of the poor enforcement and general mistreatment of the Border Patrol, all at the orders of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, a person roundly deserving of the scorn and criticism heaped upon him.

That is the real crime here. Like the Nazi SS troops that were roaming the streets of Berlin in the days just before the surrender of the Third Reich, any German folks who were not 100% in favor of the support of the Hitler regime were summarily executed by the SS and their bodies were hung from lampposts.

Henry Cuellar must be made into an example. No matter the futility of such an action.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Bratch]

Read the Indictment Against Henry Cuellar to Understand Why Congress Never Challenges the Intelligence Community

May 6, 2024 | Sundance | 330 Comments

There is a rather remarkable indictment against congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Texas, CD-28) that everyone should read.  You might remember that Cuellar was openly critical of the Biden border crisis in the latter half of 2021.  Approximately a few weeks after Cuellar was openly and strongly criticizing Biden, FBI agents raided his home {BACKSTORY}.

At the time of the FBI raid (January 2022), everyone noted the visible connection between Cuellar’s criticism of Biden and the launch of the DOJ investigation against him.  The timing was just too convenient.

Last Friday an indictment was unsealed.  Representative Cuellar and his wife are each charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit bribery of a federal official and to have a public official act as an agent of a foreign principal, two counts of bribery of a federal official, two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, two counts of violating the ban on public officials acting as agents of a foreign principal, one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, and five counts of money laundering.

Interestingly, the charges and the activity date back to 2014 and continue over the next ten years culminating in the indictment a decade later.

I would strongly urge people to read THE 54-PAGE INDICTMENT.

What you realize when you read the indictment is exactly what we have talked about on these pages for well over a decade, the business end of American politics. 

Cuellar and his wife are a case study in how the average federal politician gets wealthy from selling their office.

All of the DC politicians participate in this type of influence selling.  There are ZERO federal elected officials who do not participate in this process.  And within that dynamic, we find the answer to how the Intelligence Community exists to control all of the DC political systems without any checks in their authority.

One of the primary reasons the Intelligence Community was so fast to join the effort to eliminate the threat Donald Trump, represented in 2016, was specifically due to the lack of corrupt activity (IC blackmail) that could be leveraged against him.  Absent the ability to control the target, the IC must create leverage.

The intelligence institutions, in collaboration with the weaponized justice institutions, created the fourth branch of government.  It was this system that was fine-tuned by Barack Obama and Eric Holder to target their political opposition.

Representative Henry Cuellar is a warning to the other compromised people in Washington DC not to challenge the administrative state.  The “six ways to Sunday” groups will focus on anyone who threatens the system or breaks the code of Omerta.

Don’t read anyone else’s interpretation of it; instead, read the indictment [SEE HERE].   

Then ask yourself if the DOJ/FBI knew this stuff for so long, why did they wait? 

“I want to be clear that both my wife and I are innocent of these allegations. Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,” Cuellar said in his statement, later adding: “The actions I took in Congress were consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people.” (LINK)

[Candor7]

The evidence against him could therefore be purely fabricated like was done to Trump.

Its actually that bad.

Cuellar is innocent until proven guilty but his trial by lefty press has begin.

The same happened with other Dem resistors.

They have been after NJ Senator Memendez for years from Obama forward,and finally got his wife.

They weaponized the law agaijnst Tom DeLAy of Texas and got rid of the most effective Whip the Republicans have had this Century.

The Dem fascists p[lay fascist hard ball.And they need to be stopped with as much force.A fair trial is not the goal any more.The Constitution has ceased to matter.

[OldHarbor]

The couple in happier times, counting their illicit lucre.

[Mouton]

Just substitute any rep they wish in the verbiage of the indictment. Hunter Biden would qualify too. It is like the same indictment with ids changed from past prosecutions. I guess they yell up and down the halls of DOJ, hey I need a copy of an indictment to take out so and so.

[mass55th]

More like Cuellar is the only pro-life and anti-Biden immigration policy RAT in Congress. Since the RATS are making this election about abortion, they have to get rid of him. Can’t have a squeaky wheel on the bus.