In Sen
Menendez Trial
Nadine Texts
About Sisi
Shown While
Gold Bar Bob
Steak at
Morton's
by
Matthew Russell Lee
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 29 – Amid reports of
investigation against Sen.
Robert Menendez for taking
gold bars, Inner City Press'
sources on September 21 it to
expect on Friday, September 22
an appearance in Federal court
in Manhattan by Menendez and
his wife Nadine Arslanian. This
scoop
was true.
Later a
superseder was unveiled,
including charges of bribes to
act for Qatar...
On April 11, 2024
after Nadine Menendez and then
the government asked for
delay, to July or undefined,
Judge Stein severed her case
and reaffirmed May 6, Inner
City Press thread
On Sunday night
April 14 the US wrote in again
asking for a delay to July,
six page letter on Patreon here.
But Judge Stein
told the parties to confer and
report by April 16 at 1 pm.
Then he set an April 17
conference, which Inner City
Press live tweeted and dubbed
"Berate-gate," thread
On May 13, jury
selection began - but did not
finish. Abit later, Menendez
got into an car with FOP NJ
plates.
On May 14 jury
selection continued but was
not yet completed, from the
ending, thread
Late on May 14,
the US Attorney's Office filed
opposition to slides the
defense wants to use in its
opening arguments, including
quotes from Colin Powell and
MLK, and when Nadine came into
possession of gold - full
letter on Patreon here
Inner City Press
live tweeted jury selection
and then opening arguments here,
then filmed Bob's exit (he
said he thought it went well
and that his guy did great).
On May 21, the US
Attorney's Office put on Wael
Hana's lawyer, then a US State
Department official working on
Congressional approval (or
holds) on arms transfer to
Egypt, thread here.
On May 23, with
the trial in haitus, docketed
was Menendez' lawyers
opposition to quashing his
subpoena for Jose Uribe's
attorney proffer and
communications with SDNY
prosecutors, filing on Patreon
here
On May 29, Inner
City Press live tweeted,
omitting Morton's steakhouse
but including this:
Assistant US
Attorney: Agent, please read
what Nadine wrote to Senator
Menendez. Agent: He has not
arrived yet at the Washington
airport. He is coming with
Sisi from Guyana. AUSA: What
was the name of the president
of Egypt in 2019? Agent: Sisi.
AUSA: Who's
the sender here? Agent: Wael
Hana. To HHHH. AUSA:
Exhibit C-417, an email.
Agent: April 17, 2019 from W.
Hana to HH number Gmail
"Please consider this email as
a point by point response to
Doctor Abdi. May I suggest
that the response be as
follows
Agent (reading)
It is the government of Egypt,
not the USDA, which decides on
halal status. The personnel of
the company are well versed in
halal...
AUSA: Let's go to
the timeline, GX 1302 Agent:
Bertsch writes to other in
USDA about decertification of
others
AUSA: What's
this? Agent: Charge d'affaires
to others, about the
decertification and asking
that the other companies be
allowed to continue until this
matter is resolved AUSA: Page
49. Line 639, on May 3, 2019,
what does HHHH sent to Hana?
Agent: OK to Hana's ISEG
AUSA: What does
Nadine text to [Bob] Menenez?
Agent: That He is still mad at
Will for talking about Halal
AUSA: Whose search history is
this? Agent: Robert Menendez.
He's searching for April
Corley
AUSA: What does
Nadine text Menendez? Agent:
That protocol meeting is 15
minutes and that Will should
respect that. AUSA: And what
did Menendez reply? Agent:
"Good for him."
AUSA: What does
Nadine text Menendez? Agent:
Mon amour, to you want me to
text or email you the info?
AUSA: What does Menendez do?
Agent: He calls Nadine for 6
minutes & 8 seconds. AUSA:
What does Hana do? Agent: He
send Nadine a link and she
sends it to Menendez
AUSA: What
is being sent here? Agent:
Names and salary levels, and
job descriptions. Nadine is
listed at $120,000.
AUSA: How much is that a
month? Menendez' lawyer:
Objection! Judge: Sustained
AUSA: What
does this say? Agent: April
Corley will not accept your
offer of $2 million. But she
will accept $13.5 million
AUSA: What that the woman
Senator Menendez Googled?
Menendez' lawyer: Objection!
Leading! Judge: Sustained.
AUSA: What
does this say? Agent: Although
we accept that we are dealing
with a private entity, we
maintain this liability is
that of Egypt and Egypt alone.
AUSA: And this? Agent: "If the
guy takes care of this with
[Senator-1] he'll be set."
Judge Stein:
Let's break here.Back in US v.
Menendez: On the screen, Fred
[Daibes] texts Nadine,
"Nadine, I personally gave Bob
a check for September...
Please give me a run down of
what you believe you are
owed." AUSA: Then what does
Nadine send? Agent: Image
files, to Fred Daibes.
Judge Stein: We
are done for the day.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is US v.
Menendez, et al., 23-cr-490
(Stein)
More
on Substack here
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