Senate International Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his spouse, Nadine Arslanian, pose for a photograph on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 20, 2022. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse are indicted on bribery prices.

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Senate International Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his spouse, Nadine Arslanian, pose for a photograph on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 20, 2022. U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his spouse are indicted on bribery prices.

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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was indicted on corruption prices Friday in Manhattan, New York, following an investigation by federal prosecutors.

The indictment was unsealed in Manhattan federal courtroom. Menendez, 69, the rating Democrat on the Senate International Relations Committee, and his spouse Nadine, 56, have been named within the indictment together with Farid Daibes, an actual property developer. Wael Hanna and Joseph Uribe have been additionally charged.

The indictment accuses Menendez and his spouse of getting into right into a “corrupt relationship with three of his associates and New Jersey businessmen” — Hanna, Uribe and Daibes — and accepting “a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} in bribes in trade for the use” of the senator’s energy and affect. These bribes included money, gold, mortgage funds, compensation for a lowered job or no-show, a luxurious automotive and different gadgets of worth, the indictment alleges.

Development This comes almost six years after Menendez was tried on unrelated corruption prices – a trial that resulted in a hung jury.

A press release from the US Lawyer for the Southern District of New York mentioned prosecutors will announce the costs at 11 a.m. at a press occasion in New York.