Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, have been charged with accepting approximately $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani government-owned oil company and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department announced on Friday. What Happened: The Cuellars were charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, money laundering, and violating a ban on acting as agents of a foreign organization. The Justice Department alleged that the bribes were laundered from 2014-21 through a series of “sham consulting contracts” via middlemen and front companies owned by Imelda Cuella…
