Newly unsealed documents in the prosecution of Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar show two close associates have flipped and are cooperating with the Justice Department, the Washington Post reports, another bad sign for Cuellar and his wife in the bribery case.
In their respective agreements, Colin Strother and Florencio “Lencho” Rendon described their roles in the scheme that put more than $200,000 into the Congressman’s bank account on behalf of a Mexican bank. This is in addition to the $600,000 prosecutors say the couple took from the bank and an oil company controlled by the Azerbaijan government.