In or about June 2022, federal agents executed search warrants on the New Jersey home and the safe deposit box of ROBERT MENENDEZ and NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a “Nadine Arslanian,” the defendants. In conducting these court-authorized searches, agents found certain of the fruits of MENENDEZ’s and NADINE MENENDEZ’s corrupt bribery agreement with WAEL HANA, a/k/a “Will Hana,” JOSE URIBE, and FRED DAIBES, the defendants, including cash, gold, the luxury vehicle, and home furnishings. Over $480,000 in cash—much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe—was discovered in the home, along with over $70,000 in NADINE MENENDEZ’s safe deposit box. **Some of the envelopes contained the fingerprints and/or DNA of DAIBES or his driver. **
Search warrant does not equal Indictment. The FBI seized Weiner's laptop in 2016, he plead guilty in 2017. The FBI searched Mar a Lago in August 2022. Trump was indicted in June 2023
Cash is not illegal. Gold bars are not illegal. I bet some GAW folks own bulk gold. You have to do other work to prove the gold bars/cash are connected to a crime. See the part about fingerprints.
Indictments take time. LE investigates and gathers evidence. Prosecutors build the case. The grand jury decides to convict. There was also probably search warrants for phones, bank records, etc
You have to figure out how many crimes are involved. This ties into work for the government of Egypt. Was something bigger going on? There might have been a counterintelligence piece to this.
Is it just these folks involved? Menedez tried to interfere with the prosecution of his co-defendant in a different case. This could have involved the office of the US Attorney for NJ in crimes. This indictment came of NY. I wonder what the story behind that is.
I don't think we know when or how this case was developed. I think you would need solid evidence to convince a judge to sign off on a search warrant of a US Senator.
They didn't fail. That's how we know about the gold bars, they are fruits of the search warrant.
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-09/u.s._v._menendez_et_al_indictment.pdf
Search warrant does not equal Indictment. The FBI seized Weiner's laptop in 2016, he plead guilty in 2017. The FBI searched Mar a Lago in August 2022. Trump was indicted in June 2023
Cash is not illegal. Gold bars are not illegal. I bet some GAW folks own bulk gold. You have to do other work to prove the gold bars/cash are connected to a crime. See the part about fingerprints.
Indictments take time. LE investigates and gathers evidence. Prosecutors build the case. The grand jury decides to convict. There was also probably search warrants for phones, bank records, etc
You have to figure out how many crimes are involved. This ties into work for the government of Egypt. Was something bigger going on? There might have been a counterintelligence piece to this.
Is it just these folks involved? Menedez tried to interfere with the prosecution of his co-defendant in a different case. This could have involved the office of the US Attorney for NJ in crimes. This indictment came of NY. I wonder what the story behind that is.
I don't think we know when or how this case was developed. I think you would need solid evidence to convince a judge to sign off on a search warrant of a US Senator.