The indictment and trial reveal that Menendez allegedly accepted cash and gold bars to the value of over half a million dollars in exchange for securing weapon sales for Egypt and granting a business individual a monopoly on Halal meat exports. The profits from these exports were then used to fund the corrupt bribery scheme.
Prosecutors ain’t nothing but tired of New Jersey’s political corruption. WNYC’s Nancy Solomon, host of the Dead End podcast, explains the cases against Sen. Robert Menendez and power broker George Norcross.
This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdotter, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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