Oy Vey.
Relating to foreign influence of the country of Azerbajian, his office and home were searched pursuant to a warrant in January 2022.
He claimed he was not the target of the investigation, but conspiracy charges cast a fairly wide net, and I guess prosecutors either got someone to flip, or his involvement was proved by other evidence.
He does not appear to be resigning from Congress over it.
UPDATE: No show job for his wife. (kinda like what Boebert’s husband was doing until they split up, so he might be charged with a crime in the not so near future)
“beginning in at least December 2014 and continuing through at least November 2021, Congressman Cuellar and Imelda Cuellar allegedly accepted approximately $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: an oil and gas company wholly owned and controlled by the Government of Azerbaijan, and a bank headquartered in Mexico City. The bribe payments were allegedly laundered, pursuant to sham consulting contracts, through a series of front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar, who performed little to no legitimate work under the contracts. In exchange for the bribes paid by the Azerbaijani oil and gas company,