Frequent news on corrupt American politicians who have been ardent advocates of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) once more came to Bob Menendez, after John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani\u2019s disgraces.<\/p>\n
Nadine Menendez, the wife of the convicted former US senator Bob Menendez, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician\u2019s influence in exchange for bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car, the Guardian reported.<\/p>\n
Bob Menendez, 71, is serving an 11-year sentence after his conviction last year on charges of taking bribes, extortion, and acting as an agent of the Egyptian government.<\/p>\n
In January 2025, Menendez<\/a> was found guilty on 16 counts, including bribery, corruption, and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, after receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold bars, and a Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n In June,\u00a0 Menendez<\/a> arrived at a federal prison to begin serving an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt.<\/p>\n Menendez was also a top recipient of campaign contributions from donors with ties to the MEK. He met Maryam Rajavi and continued to address MEK rallies to promote it as a government-in-exile. He did not hesitate to state that he was a friend to the formerly designated terrorist group with cultlike attitudes called under the names of National Council of Resistance.<\/p>\n This is while the 2004 FBI report details the MEK\u2019s engagement in \u201ca complex international money laundering operation that uses accounts in Turkey, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.\u201d This report also revealed \u201ca complex fraud scheme involving children and social benefits\u201d which is related to the group\u2019s exploitation of the social assistance of children of Mujahed parents who had smuggled from Iraq to Europe and North America in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n Following Menedez\u2019s trial, in March 2024, the Intercept reported that an analysis of the donor rolls shows that about 15 percent of the people who gave money to Menendez \u2014 including Moeinimanesh and Afshari \u2014 are linked to an Iranian exile group called the MEK.<\/p>\n According to the Intercept, Moeinimanesh, the chair of OIAC –Organization of Iranian American Communities, a front group for the MEK– who contributed $2,500, was one of a dozen Iranian Americans with links to the MEK or its affiliates that donated Menendez.<\/p>\n Afshari gave $1,000. \u201cGiving money to people I think are nice is not illegal,\u201d Afshari told The Intercept, of his contributions to Menendez\u2019s legal fund. In total, MEK-affiliated individuals made up approximately 5 percent of the total funds raised, over $20,000, the Intercept assessed.<\/p>\n However, Menedez is not the only corrupt supporter of the Cult of Rajavi. In August, the FBI raided the home of John Bolton, President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security advisor. The search was part of an investigation into whether Bolton illegally shared or possessed classified information. And, in December 2023, a federal jury in Washington, D.C., ordered that the former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers whom, as determined by the judge in the case, Giuliani had defamed by claiming they had helped steal the election from Donald Trump. Bolton<\/a>\u00a0and Giuliani<\/a>\u00a0are among the most out-spoken supporters of Maryam Rajavi. They have so far received six-digit sums of money from the MEK multi-million-dollar lobbying campaign.<\/p>\n It seems that those who admit to advocate the MEK, are either na\u00efve or corrupt. The list of MEK\u2019s ardent supporters who are under investigation, trial or convicted as criminal is getting longer. This indicates that corrupt politicians are proper targets for MEK agents to buy their support in exchange for hefty sums.<\/p>\n By Mazda Parsi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frequent news on corrupt American politicians who have been ardent advocates of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) once more came to Bob Menendez, after John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani\u2019s disgraces. 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