U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar, a long-serving Democrat from Texas, was charged Friday over allegations he accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes to influence foreign policy in favor of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank. According to prosecutors, the 68-year-old congressman and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, used sham consulting contracts to accept roughly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil and gas company and a Mexican bank between 2014 and 2021. “The bribe payments were allegedly laundered, pursuant to sham consulting contracts, through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell compani…