(Headline USA) Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who was indicted last week on federal bribery charges, reportedly hired the lawyer who also represents Hunter Biden.
The embattled Democrat recruited attorney Abbe Lowell as he faces multiple corruption charges.
Lowell represented Menendez back in 2018, when he faced similar charges for allegedly accepting gifts from a Florida eye doctor in exchange for political favors. That case was ultimately dropped after the jury failed to come to a decision.
Lowell is also defending Biden against his Delaware firearm charges and in a civil suit filed against a former Trump administration aide, whom Biden has accused of hacking into his phone data.
Lowell became the lead attorney handling Biden’s case after a sweetheart plea deal brokered with the Justice Department fell apart in court.
Chris Clark, then-head attorney to Biden’s team, withdrew from the case after the collapse, citing the possibility that he could be called as a witness in special counsel David Weiss’s investigation in regards to the plea deal.
Menendez insisted in a press conference on Monday that he was being wrongly targeted, and he denied that he had any intention of stepping down from his U.S. Senate seat.
“I firmly believe that when all the facts are presented, not only will I be exonerated, but I still will be New Jersey’s senior senator,” he claimed.
The Democrat also offered an explanation for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash federal investigators discovered in his New Jersey home.
“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” Menendez said. “These were moneys drawn from my personal savings account based on the income I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.”
Investigators said the envelopes in which the cash was stored “contained the fingerprints and/or DNA” of one of the people charged with bribing Menendez.
