Gold bars featured in Bob Menendez bribe case linked to 2013 robbery,

[Gefn]

The New Jersey businessman told police he was the victim of an armed robbery in 2013, and asked police recover the 22 gold bars stolen from him. Four of those gold bars were found a decade later in the Clifton home of Menendez and his wife Nadine during an FBI search

At least four gold bars found in the FBI search of Sen. Robert Menendez’s home had been directly linked to a New Jersey businessman now accused of bribing the state's senior senator, Bergen County prosecutor records from a 2013 robbery case show.

The businessman, Fred Daibes, reported to police he was the victim of an armed robbery in 2013, and he asked police recover the gold bars stolen from him. In the 2013 robbery, Daibes reported $500,000 in cash and 22 gold bars were stolen, Edgewater police records show. Police later caught four suspects with the stolen goods.

To get his property back, Daibes signed "property release forms" certifying the gold bars belonged to him, the records show.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/gold-bars-featured-in-bob-menendez-bribe-case-linked-to-2013-robbery-records-show/4919801/

[Gefn]

Breaking on the evening news

[catfish1957]

You remember  the old being caught with a Dead Girl or Live Boy electability quote? 

How about being caught with gold bar contraband?   


Hmmm..  and they were more worried about railroading Santos off Capitol Hill.

[mountaineer]

Menendez is trying to take the title of Sleaziest Piece of Crap in Congress. He may have wrapped it up.

[DCPatriot]

You'd think he would have melted the gold bars down again into Goldfinger bricks or something.  The arrogance, huh?? 

[Smokin Joe]

You'd think he would have melted the gold bars down again into Goldfinger bricks or something.  The arrogance, huh?? 

It isn't like you could do it on your stove...it melts at 1,948 degrees F.

[catfish1957]

It isn't like you could do it on your stove...it melts at 1,948 degrees F.

Good points, but the serial numbers file off mighty easily. 

[DCPatriot]

Good points, but the serial numbers file off mighty easily.

In nukes...the uranium can always be traced back to the country.

It's how The Sum of All Fears begins...poor bastard Bedouins dies of radiation poisoning when he discovers the wrecked jet carrying nuke buried in the desert.

Bottom line here is that the guy ALSO had $500,000 in cash stuffed into suit and coat pockets in this closets.

Now...was this his cut of a money laundering scheme, or were they the proceeds of the past 5 years??...since he's been under the microscope for years

That kind of cash, you have to find somebody to melt that gold down