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US District Judge Sidney Stein told prosecutors they could not use text messages from 2019 between an Egyptian official and Sen. Bob Menendez’s co-defendant Wael Hana (D-NJ) due to the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause.
The ruling also applies to the 2022 texts between Menendez’s wife Nadine and Hana when she “allegedly forwarded a link to Hana about two military sales to Egypt worth about $2.5 billion, writing, ‘Bob had to sign off on this.’”
No texts could cause problems for the government’s case against Menendez regarding Egypt and military aid. Menendez and his wife Nadine face charges of accepting bribes in exchange for those favors.
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