Federal prosecutors in South Texas are expected to announce a grand jury has returned an indictment against Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar, NBC News reports. Cuellar had been the target of an FBI raid in 2022 over his shady ties to some Azerbaijani scumbags but it’s not clear if the indictment is connected or if it’s from a new investigation into different crimes.
Either way it’s plain that, in order to maintain the appearance that a politicized two-tier system of justice doesn’t exist, the Deep State sometimes goes after sacrificial lambs like Cuellar and Bob Menendez to make their “persecutions” of Donald Trump seem more legitimate. A not-small number of right wing legal pundits and regular schmucks alike will make that argument with a straight face.
UPDATE 5/3/2024 2:03 PM EDT: Cuellar and his wife have been officially indicted on charges of taking nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a bank based in Mexico City.