Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was charged with additional crimes on Tuesday as part of a “Superseding Indictment,” that accuse him of accepting additional gifts in exchange for making public statements that supported the Middle Eastern country of Qatar.
The 50-page indictment, which was filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Manhattan based Southern District of New York follows an earlier indictment filed by SDNY that accused the senior NJ senator and his wife, Nadine, of accepting gifts, including gold bars, from three individuals to benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt and State of Qatar.
The new charges come less than two weeks after the Menendez criticized Biden for engaging in a prisoner exchange with the Venezuelan dictatorship that resulted in the release of a key Maduro ally.
