NEW YORK – The tribulations – though not yet the trials – of U.S. Senator Robert ‘Bob’ Menendez of New Jersey have taken another disturbing turn as an explosive dossier has been obtained by the New York Post, which on February 20 published an article about its contents.

Menendez, 70, and his second wife, Nadine Arslanian, were indicted on bribery and corruption charges in 2023 after Federal agents seized nearly $500,000 in cash and gold bars at their home in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
The dossier alleges, according to the Post, that Menendez “showed his married lover a safe stuffed with cash 15 years before the FBI raided the New Jersey Democrat’s home… The lover bragged to her friends that she had seen ‘bundles of cash’ stuffed in ‘hidden places’ in 2007… And it also claimed that Menendez boasted about ‘kickbacks from contractors and influence seeking people’ while they conducted a torrid affair…”

The Post writes: “The allegations about hidden cash were made in a dossier about the affair that was circulated in 2013 by an anonymous author to outlets including the New York Times and the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based ethics watchdog group. The Post was sent a version in 2013 and has now obtained a fuller copy of the 13-page document.”

It is noted that in 2013, Menendez was under federal investigation. He was indicted for possible influence-selling, but not convicted.

The Post also informed on February 20 that “last week, federal prosecutors alleged in a new filing that Arslanian, 56, received a diamond engagement ring as part of the alleged bribery scheme and used an alternate phone that the couple dubbed ‘007’ to communicate with one of their alleged co-conspirators. The couple and their co-accused, New Jersey businessmen Fred Daibes, Wael Hana and Jose Uribe, have all pleaded not guilty to all charges.”

The Post notes that “Menendez claims the gold bars were Arslanian’s mother’s and that he withdrew the cash from his bank accounts for decades because of ‘the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.’”

“While The Post cannot verify that Reynolds saw piles of cash, her connection to Menendez is a matter of public record,” the newspaper added.

Menendez’s attorney Robert Luskin and Reynolds did not return a request by the Post for comment.

(Material from the New York Post was used in this report)