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Rep. Henry Cuellar has been one of the only Democrats in Congress to speak out against Joe Biden’s border policies. Now, the Justice Department has charged the congressman and his wife Imelda with accepting $600,000 in bribes, money laundering, and other charges.
The indictment reveals a good, old-fashioned « pay for play » scheme with Cuellar doing various favors for the Azerbaijan government in exchange for cash and looping in a corrupt Mexican bank for a cut.
Cuellar “agreed to perform official acts in his capacity as a Member of Congress, to commit acts in violation of his official duties, and to act as an agent of the Government of Azerbaijan” and the bank, the indictment says.
Cuellar says he’s innocent.
“Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,” Cuellar said. “Before I took action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm. »
That may be. But he sure didn’t act like the actions he took on behalf of Azerbaijan were on the up and up.
The couple received payments from Azerbaijan through a Texas-based shell company owned by Imelda Cuellar and her two children, according to the indictment.
