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CBS News reports:
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted on more than a dozen federal charges alleging they took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department said Friday.
The 54-page indictment filed in federal district court in Houston was unsealed Friday and charges Cuellar with 14 counts including conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering. He is also accused of acting as a foreign agent to benefit the government of Azerbaijan.
Federal prosecutors allege that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Rios Cuellar, accepted at least $598,000 in bribes from the Azerbaijani oil and gas company and the bank, which is headquartered in Mexico City. They allege that the bribes were laundered in the form of sham consulting contracts through front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar.
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BREAKING: Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife are indicted on conspiracy and other charges in a probe into their ties to Azerbaijan. https://t.co/Tl6B8aOHrj
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