Gold Bars Found In Dem Senators House Traced Back To Robbery
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Democrat Senator Robert Menendez and Nadine Mendendez, his wife, were indicted on federal bribery charges.
They were accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in exchange for his influence being used.
Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey was indicted on federal bribery charges on Friday morning following a yearlong corruption investigation.
In a federal indictment obtained by CNN, the senator and his wife, Nadine Mendendez, are both accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in bribes in exchange for using the senator’s “‘power and influence.”
The alleged crimes took place from 2018 until last year, the Justice Department said.
The couple are accused of accepting bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, one with an alleged connection to the Egyptian government.
One of those Menendez reportedly accepted bribes from was wealthy New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes.
Four of the gold bars found at Menendez’s residence were linked back to him.
They were linked back because of a 2013 robbery in which Daibers was robbed at gunpoint and had 22 gold bars stolen.
Several gold bars discovered by federal agents in Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s residence as part of a high-profile bribery investigation can be traced to a violent robbery a decade ago.
According to a sprawling indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in September, Menendez and his wife allegedly played a role in a years-long bribery scheme that involved the Egyptian government and local businessmen including Fred Daibes, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer. Prosecutors revealed they retrieved multiple gold bars from Menendez’s home which were allegedly used as payment in the scheme.
At least four of the gold bars discovered by investigators can be linked to Daibes, both because of their unique engraved serial numbers and thanks to court documents related to a 2013 robbery which Daibes was a victim of, an NBC New York investigation revealed Monday. In November 2013, four assailants beat and robbed Daibes at gunpoint in his Edgewater, New Jersey, apartment, stealing 22 gold bars, jewelry and cash.
“Each gold bar has its own serial number,” Daibes told local investigators in a 2014 transcript obtained by NBC New York. “They’re all stamped … you’ll never see two stamped the same way.”
