Menendez, Thomas, McCarthy, and Trump: A Tough Week For A Blogger With Limited Time*
<p>Robert Menendez began dating Nadine Arslanian shortly after he “beat” 2015 federal corruption charges in 2017 with a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/nyregion/senator-robert-menendez-corruption.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">hung jury</a> and the DOJ said it <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/nyregion/justice-department-moves-to-dismiss-corruption-case-against-menendez.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">would not</a> try him again. He’d been accused of accepting close to $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a Palm Beach, Florida ophthalmologist in exchange for using his power in the senate to influence the outcome of ongoing contractual and Medicare billing disputes worth tens of millions of dollars to the doctor and to support the visa applications of several of the doctor’s girlfriends. <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/senator-robert-menendez-and-salomon-melgen-indicted-conspiracy-bribery-and-honest-services" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Senator Menedez’s 2015 indictment</a>.</p>
<p>Robert and Nadine eventually married. She introduced the senator to a longtime friend, Wael Hana, “an Egyptian American businessman in New Jersey. </p>
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