Entry 051Sep 25, 2023
“...these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.”51
51Bob Menendez, U.S. Senator, New Jersey (Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee), Press conference, Hudson County Community College, Union City, New Jersey, September 25, 2023. Source
Why it’s on the record. At trial, prosecutors showed that cash in the home was not from his bank and that envelopes were tied to co-defendant Fred Daibes. In July 2024 a jury convicted Menendez on all 16 counts, including bribery, extortion and acting as an agent of Egypt. He resigned in August 2024 and was sentenced in January 2025 to 11 years in prison.
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On the record
Three days after his bribery indictment, Menendez explained the roughly $486,000 in cash found in his home, which he attributed to a family history of confiscation in Cuba. He refused to resign: 'I am not going anywhere.'
- Said by
- Bob Menendez, U.S. Senator, New Jersey (Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Where
- Press conference, Hudson County Community College, Union City, New Jersey
- When
- Sep 25, 2023
- Source
- Press conference, Hudson County Community College, Union City, New Jersey, September 25, 2023