Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Sen. Bob Menendez
Looks like its just a matter of time before Senator Bob Menendez will run out of maneuvers to avoid “the Light of Truth” finding him in the shadows and revealing the truth. He’s been going from shadow to shadow to hide from it for a while now.
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Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Sen. Bob Menendez
It is the first plea obtained by prosecutors in case against New Jersey Democrat
Updated March 1, 2024 at 4:38 pm ET
Sen. Bob Menendez’s defense against public-corruption charges suffered a blow Friday when a businessman pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe the New Jersey Democrat and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Jose Uribe, who operated an insurance business, pleaded guilty to seven criminal counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery, honest-services fraud and obstruction of justice, according to court documents filed Friday. Uribe admitted to making payments toward a Mercedes-Benz convertible for Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, in exchange for the senator’s assistance in resolving a pair of criminal matters in the state.
“I knew that giving a car in return for influencing a United States Senator to stop a criminal investigation was wrong, and I deeply regret my actions,” Uribe told a judge during a court hearing Friday.
The plea is the first in the case. Uribe’s cooperation bolsters prosecutors’ case against Menendez, since the businessman could testify against the senator at trial, set to begin on May 6, and offer an insider’s account to jurors of the alleged scheme.
Adam Fee, a lawyer for Menendez, said the senator looked forward to proving his innocence in court.
“Today’s news of Mr. Uribe’s change of plea does not change the core truth: Sen. Menendez is innocent and the prosecutors have got it wrong,” Fee said.
A lawyer for Uribe declined to comment. A judge scheduled Uribe’s sentencing for June 14.
Uribe was indicted last year alongside Menendez, the senator’s wife and two other New Jersey businessmen for an alleged scheme in which prosecutors say the senator and his spouse received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and other gifts in exchange for favors. Prosecutors have accused Menendez of using his office to help the Egyptian and Qatari governments while enriching the businessmen.
Menendez, his wife and the other two businessmen have pleaded not guilty. The senator has said he will be exonerated and accused prosecutors of misrepresenting the normal work of a congressional office.
Menendez, who previously served as a chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, beat a prior set of public-corruption charges, which prosecutors dropped after an earlier trial ended in a mistrial.
Uribe admitted to helping to pay for a car for Menendez’s wife in exchange for the senator’s help in obtaining a favorable outcome in an associate’s criminal case in New Jersey state court. Uribe also admitted to seeking Menendez’s intervention in a state criminal investigation into one of his employees. Prosecutors allege that the senator spoke to senior officials in the New Jersey attorney general’s office to push them to resolve the matter. No one in the office intervened as the senator requested, prosecutors said.
In court Friday, Uribe told the judge that after he received a subpoena related to the senator, he met with Nadine Menendez, who asked what he would say about the car payments.
“I told her that I would say a good friend of mine was in a financial situation and I was helping that friend to make the payments on the car, and when she was financially stable, she will pay me back,” he said. “Nadine says something like, ‘that sounds good.’”
Uribe also admitted to causing his then-lawyer to make false statements about the car payments to the office of the Manhattan U.S. attorney, which brought the charges. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion for failing to report some income to the government, from 2016 through 2021.
While Uribe’s total maximum sentence is 95 years in prison, according to his plea agreement, his cooperation is likely to earn him a much more lenient sentence. If Uribe holds up his end of the bargain and provides substantial assistance to prosecutors, they agree to write him a letter requesting leniency from the judge.
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Appeared in the March 2, 2024, print edition as ‘Businessman Pleads Guilty and Agrees To Cooperate in Case Against Menendez’.
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Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Sen. Bob Menendez
Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing Sen. Bob Menendez
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