Hen­ry Cuel­lar indict­ed: DOJ charges Texas House Demo­c­rat with tak­ing bribes

Rep. Hen­ry Cuel­lar (D‑TX) was indict­ed in Texas on Fri­day for alleged­ly accept­ing near­ly $600,000 in bribes from two for­eign enti­ties: the gov­ern­ment of Azer­bai­jan and a bank based in Mex­i­co City.
Cuel­lar, a con­gress­man of near­ly two decades, and his wife Imel­da were both charged by the Depart­ment of Jus­tice with con­spir­a­cy to com­mit bribery, bribery of a fed­er­al offi­cial, con­spir­a­cy to com­mit hon­est ser­vices fraud, vio­lat­ing a ban on pub­lic offi­cials act­ing as for­eign agents, and sev­er­al mon­ey laun­der­ing charges.
Cuel­lar, who once served as the co-chair­man of the Con­gres­sion­al Azer­bai­jan Cau­cus, declared that he was inno­cent hours ahead of the indict­ment being unsealed.
NBC News report­ed Fri­day morn­ing that the DOJ was prepar­ing to bring the indict­ment against …