Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating whether Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife accepted gifts from a meat business worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for any actions taken by Menendez as a senator.
NBC News reported that investigators are looking to see if the gifts — which include a Mercedes-Benz, a luxury apartment in the expensive D.C. area, cash, and jewelry — came from the owner or associates of IS EG Halal.
In 2019, the halal meat business won an exclusive contract to become the sole company responsible for certifying halal exports from Egypt. U.S. officials viewed the situation as suspicious due to how such a large contract was awarded to a company with “little prior experience.”
The Egyptian government immediately fired seven other “longtime companies across the globe” once IS EG Halal won the contract, causing those companies to lose out on millions, the report said. The firm is reportedly “run by a Christian with little prior experience in Islamic certification of international meat imports and exports.”
Menendez is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which puts him in charge of billions of dollars in aid to Egypt.
This is the third investigation on him and his wife since he has bee a POLITIAN and they never been punished for this same thing. He is thanking the DEMON DEMOCRATS for protecting them from punishment