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New York (AFP) - US prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Senator Robert Menendez on Tuesday, alleging he has sought to obstruct justice as investigators probe him for graft involving Middle Eastern countries. Menendez already faced corruption-related charges, which he has denied, including conspiring to act as an agent of Egypt and taking bribes and influence peddling for Cairo, and helping a businessman secure investment from a Qatari fund. The new charges follow the decision of businessman Jose Uribe, who was charged alongside Menendez and his wife, to plead guilty and assist in...
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New York (AFP) - New York Mayor Eric Adams is gripped by a slew of scandals, including a sexual assault allegation and claims of corruption -- threatening to derail his ambitions and open the door to challengers. Once seen as a possible Democratic Party presidential contender, the city's second Black mayor is now fighting for his political life. In one incident, FBI and local prosecutors are investigating whether a New York construction firm, alleged to have ties to the Turkish government, used fronts to donate money to Adams's mayoral election campaign that saw him take office in 2022. Former...
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New York (AFP) - US prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Senator Robert Menendez on Tuesday, alleging he took bribes to help a businessman secure investment from a fund with ties to Qatar's government. Menendez already faces corruption-related charges in the same case, which he has denied, including conspiring to act as an agent of Egypt and taking bribes and influence peddling for Cairo. Menendez has rejected calls for his resignation, but in September relinquished his chairmanship of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez allegedly received bribes to assist a ...
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New York (AFP) - US Senator Robert Menendez entered a not guilty plea in a New York court Monday to a new charge alleging that the Democratic lawmaker conspired to act as an agent of the Egyptian government when he chaired the Senate foreign relations committee. Menendez, who faces corruption-related charges along with his wife and three other people, had already been indicted on charges of taking bribes and influence peddling for the benefit of Egypt, and had already pleaded not guilty at the end of September. In a newer charge, federal prosecutors accused Menendez of conspiracy to act as an ...
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New York (AFP) - Federal prosecutors charged powerful US Senator Robert Menendez on Friday with bribery and extortion, saying gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash had been found at the high-ranking Democrat's home. In one of several allegations, the Justice Department said Menendez had provided sensitive information to the Egyptian government in order to help an Egyptian-American businessman protect his monopoly. It was the second corruption indictment in eight years against the veteran New Jersey politician, 69, and may place into question his hold on his seat in Congress an...
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New York (AFP) - US Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a Democrat and the powerful head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been indicted on corruption charges for a second time, the Justice Department announced Friday. The 69-year-old senator and his wife Nadine Menendez have been charged with "bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen," the federal prosecutor in New York said. The second corruption indictment of Menendez in a decade -- the first ended in a mistrial -- could pose a threat to the Democratic Party's slim hold...
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Houston (AFP) - Texas Republican lawmakers on Saturday overwhelmingly voted to impeach the southern state's attorney general on corruption charges, suspending him from office until he faces trial in the Senate. Attorney General Ken Paxton's temporary removal marked the stunning downfall of an ardent defender of former president Donald Trump with an ascendant national profile. After an all-afternoon debate, lawmakers considering Paxton's impeachment voted 121 in favor, 23 against with two not voting. "The evidence is substantial. It is alarming and unnerving," said legislator Andrew Murr, a Rep...
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Houston (AFP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been a legal thorn in the side of US President Joe Biden, faces removal from office in a state Congress vote on Saturday over years of official complaints about corruption. On Thursday, a congressional investigative committee unanimously adopted 20 articles of impeachment against the attorney general for corruption, misuse of public funds, false statements and obstruction of justice. The indictment alleges that Paxton pressured his staff to protect a friend and donor from prosecution. In exchange, the donor gave a job to a woman with w...
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Washington (AFP) - Pras Michel, a rapper in the 1990s hit trio The Fugees, was found guilty Wednesday of helping funnel money from a billion-dollar Malaysia scam into US politics. After a trial that featured Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio as a witness, Michel was found guilty of illegal political donations, money laundering and related charges in the scandal engineered by flamboyant Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho. In the early 2010s Low, now a fugitive believed hiding in China, helped funnel billions of dollars stolen from a Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB into luxury US real...
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Washington (AFP) - Jury selection in the trial of artist Pras Michel, who rose to fame in the 1990s as part of the hip-hop group The Fugees, began Monday in Washington. The case involving the Grammy-winning musician alleges he played a role in an international conspiracy and corruption scandal led by a Malaysian financier, and could see Michel sent behind bars for decades. The 50-year-old Haitian-American faces 12 charges linked to illegal contributions to president Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, and a second plan alleging a secret lobbying effort connected to the Donald Trump admin...
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