Senator Bob Menendez has spent a lot of time sitting down while attending court for his ongoing bribery trial, to the point that it could have led to an uncomfortable and embarrassing medical condition.
Exclusive DailyMail.com footage shows the embattled New Jersey Democrat emerging from his vehicle at his home on Wednesday holding hemorrhoid cream.
The images show Menendez holding a box of RectiCare, a cream intended to help users deal with discomfort caused by inflammation of the anus and rectal veins.
It seemed like he was also suffering as footage shows the lawmaker grimacing, possibly due to the discomfort of his condition.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was seen arriving home with a box of hemorrhoid cream in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The senator is on trial in New York City and returned to his New Jersey home with luggage this morning. He was seen blocking the keypad entry to his garage with his suit bag while he punched in the code to enter his garage.
Menendez was also carrying his luggage when he arrived home, although it is unknown why he was carrying it, as he lives just a few miles from Manhattan, where his ongoing trial is taking place.
And hemorrhoids aside, it’s already been a tough week for Menendez.
On Tuesday, new images revealed in his ongoing bribery trial showed his house in disarray, littered with gold bars and wads of cash stuffed into Timberland boots and on his bed.
Images of $100, $50 and $20 bills strewn throughout the New Jersey Democrat’s neglected home were shown to jurors during his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan.
The photographs were taken during the FBI raid on Menendez’s residence in June 2022.
Both he and his wife Nadine are accused of a bribery scheme that included gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash payments and a luxurious Mercedes-Benz convertible.
He is accused of using his influence as then-powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to benefit a handful of businessmen and the Egyptian government.
Menendez, Nadine and two New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, pleaded not guilty.
The lawmaker was seen with a box of RectiCare as he exited his vehicle at his New Jersey home.
He was seen grimacing as he exited his vehicle, possibly an indication of the pain caused by his hemorrhoids.
The veteran politician arrived home, got out of his vehicle with the cream and went inside.
He carried the hemorrhoid cream, a metal water bottle, a suitcase and luggage upon his return home.
It is unknown why he needs luggage to attend his trial at the Manhattan court, which is just miles from his home in New Jersey.
The Democrat also lifted his suit bag to hide the code he entered to open his garage.
The luggage indicates that the lawmaker could choose to stay in Manhattan during his trial so as not to have to make the hour-long round trip.
After entering the code to his garage, the senator entered his house and disappeared from view.
Last week, Menendez’s legal team criticized Nadine, saying she was storing gold bars in the couple’s home without the lawmaker’s knowledge.
Her defense strategy came to light even though Nadine announced that she has breast cancer.
The Democrat’s lawyer, Avi Weitzman, stated during opening statements that the “gold bars were found in a locked closet” and that they were not the legislator’s but “it is Nadine’s closet.”
He then took a photo of the closet and highlighted how it was filled with Nadine’s clothes.
“The senator didn’t know the gold bars were there,” Weitzman told the jury.
However, federal prosecutors claim that Menendez was directly involved in the bribery scheme.
‘This case is about a public official who put greed first. Who put his power up for sale,’ federal prosecutor Lara Pomerantz said on Wednesday.
“This was not the usual policy. “This was politics for profit.”
‘He was powerful. He was also corrupt. And what was the price of it? Gold bars,” Pomerantz said.
He even stuffed money into a Timberland boot found in his home.
Photographs of wads of $100, $50 and $20 bills scattered throughout the New Jersey Democrat’s home were shown to jurors during his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan.
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives at the federal courthouse on May 21
Senator Bob Menéndez’s house was full of gold bars and wads of bills
Wads of bills were found throughout Menéndez’s house
The images were taken by the FBI during its June 2022 raid on Menendez’s home.
Documents were discovered with cash stuffed between them.
“The scheme filled his pockets, filled his wife’s pockets and fueled his greed.”
“Menendez abused his positions to feed his own greed and keep his wife happy,” the federal prosecutor said.
Pomerantz even claimed that Menendez sent his wife to handle communications in the bribery scheme.
“He used Nadine as his intermediary to deliver messages to and from people who paid bribes.”
Judge Sidney H. Stein, who is presiding over the case, told potential jurors that prominent lawmakers, former White House officials and even a man considered Trump’s vice presidential candidate could be called to testify in the high court. -Profile of the corruption case.
More cash in increments of $20 bills were thrown all over the house
More photos taken of what appears to be a safe.
The jury was shown exhibits of all the cash found around the Menendez residence.
The list of potential witnesses provided by Stein included: Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Lindsey Graham, R.S.C., Tim Scott, R.S.C., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Tim Kaine, D. Virginia, Chris Coons, D-Delaware, Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, Kristen Sinema, I-Ariz., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
It also includes former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Treasury Secretary. Steve Mnuchin, former senior advisor to President Obama David Axelrod and Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.
The list of potential witnesses particularly mentions Scott, who is rumored to be a leading candidate for Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024.
It also lists two of the former president’s closest advisers: Mnuchin and Pompeo.
