The FBI investigation into potential corruption by Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez started after Menendez’s then-girlfriend/now-wife Nadine Arslanian asked a subject under FBI surveillance, “What else can the love of my life do for you?” a federal agent testified at the Senator’s trial.

Per the Associated Press, FBI investigator Terrie Williams-Thompson said she overheard Nadine Arslanian ask the FBI target the question while dining at Morton’s steakhouse in Washington in 2019.  The Menendezes are accused of accepting cash, gold bars, cars and other benefits from an Egyptian importer of halal meat from Egypt that was under investigation for potentially running a monopoly.

One of the three other men at the table that day has flipped and will testify for the prosecution, and the other two will be tried together later.  Nadine Menendez will be tried separately from her husband.  Williams-Thompson weaved a story of undercover agents–including one posing as the target’s Uber driver–surreptitiously recorded the meeting at Morton’s using multiple teams and secret cameras.
From Spartan: Dem New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim on Tuesday won the New Jersey Senate nomination to take over for DINO scumbag Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez, the AP projects. Menendez filed to run as an independent on Monday but hopefully won’t fuck it up for Kim by getting acquitted and staying in the Senate and the 2024 race for the seat.