Gold Bar' Senator Bob Menendez stuffed piles of $480,000 cash into Timberland ... trends now
Senator Bob Menendez's messy home was littered with gold bars and wads of cash stuffed in Timberland boots and in his bed, new pictures reveal.
The images of $100, $50 and $20 dollar bills spewed all over the New Jersey Democrat's unkempt house were shown to the jury during his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan. The photographs were taken during the FBI's raid of the Menendez residence in June 2022.
He and his wife Nadine are both charged in a bribery scheme featuring gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash payments and a luxury Mercedes-Benz convertible.
He is accused of using his influence as the powerful then-chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to benefit a handful of businessmen and the government of Egypt.
Menendez, Nadine and two New Jersey businessmen - Wael Hana and Fred Daibes - have pleaded not guilty.
The pictures of $100, $50 and $20 wads of cash all over the New Jersey Democrat's home were shown to the jury during his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan
Last week, Menendez's legal team threw Nadine under the bus, saying she was storing gold bars in the couple's home without the lawmaker's knowledge.
His defense strategy was revealed despite Nadine announcing that she has breast cancer.
The Democrat's attorney Avi Weitzman claimed during opening statements that the 'gold bars were found in a locked closet' and that it wasn't the lawmaker's but 'it is Nadine’s closet.'
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He then pulled out a photo of the closet and highlighted how it was filled with Nadine's clothes.
'The senator did not know the gold bars were
