Gold bars found stashed in Sen. Menendez's home during FBI search tied to violent robbery

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Gold bars stashed in Dem senator's home recovered after 2013 violent robbery
Serial numbers on Menendez's gold bars indicate they were taken in 2013 gunpoint robbery
 By Thomas Catenacci Fox News
Published December 4, 2023 9:29pm EST

Several gold bars discovered by federal agents in Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's residence as part of a high-profile bribery investigation can be traced to a violent robbery a decade ago.

According to a sprawling indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in September, Menendez and his wife allegedly played a role in a years-long bribery scheme that involved the Egyptian government and local businessmen including Fred Daibes, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer. Prosecutors revealed they retrieved multiple gold bars from Menendez's home which were allegedly used as payment in the scheme.

At least four of the gold bars discovered by investigators can be linked to Daibes, both because of their unique engraved serial numbers and thanks to court documents related to a 2013 robbery which Daibes was a victim of, an NBC New York investigation revealed Monday. In November 2013, four assailants beat and robbed Daibes at gunpoint in his Edgewater, New Jersey, apartment, stealing 22 gold bars, jewelry and cash.

"Each gold bar has its own serial number," Daibes told local investigators in a 2014 transcript obtained by NBC New York. "They’re all stamped … you’ll never see two stamped the same way."

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Oh geez. This means not only did Fred Daibes bribe Menendez, he bribed him with gold bars he pretended were stolen (for insurance $$, presumably)... 

"Gold bars found in Sen. Bob Menendez’s home linked to 2013 armed robbery.

Four of the gold bars Sen. Bob Menendez stashed at his home were previously stolen from the businessman accused of bribing the New Jersey Democrat, according to a report.

The serial numbers on some of the gold found by the FBI during a June 2022 raid of Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ, home match identifiers that Fred Daibes reported to police after a 2013 armed robbery, according to NBC News.

Robbers made off with $500,000 in cash and 22 gold bars from Daibes’ Edgewater, NJ, home during the 2013 heist, the outlet reports.

Police later nabbed four suspects and recovered the stolen gold.

The matching serial numbers indicate that authorities have now directly linked at least some of the gold found in Menendez’s home to Daibes, a New Jersey real estate developer and Menendez fundraiser."
6:47 AM · Dec 5, 2023
Story at NY Post

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Amazing circumstantial evidence.  Sleazy dims can't save him.

If Turtle had any balls he'd call for an expulsion vote right now, just like Santos.  Santos lied and had petty theft.  Menendez' graft and crimes are apparently legendary.

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Democrats can investigate all they want, even the corrupt U.S. FBI tools that can see no more crime of a democrat than a democrat investigating a democrat.  What fool believes either capable of bringing a democrat to real justice.....Whitewash at best!