Gold Bar’ Senator Bob Menendez stuffed piles of $480,000 cash into Timberland boots and between bedsheets along with $150K in gold during ‘bribery’ scheme, new photos reveal

Senator Bob Menendez’s cluttered home was strewn with gold bars and stacks of cash in Timberland boots and in his bed, new photos show.

The images of $100, $50 and $20 bills strewn throughout the New Jersey Democrat’s unkempt home were shown to the jury during his ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan. The photos were taken during the FBI raid on Menendez’s home in June 2022.

He and his wife Nadine are both charged in a bribery scheme involving gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash payments and a luxury Mercedes-Benz convertible.

He is accused of using his influence as the powerful then-chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit a handful of businessmen and the government of Egypt.

Menendez, Nadine and two New Jersey businessmen – Wael Hana and Fred Daibes – have pleaded not guilty.

Last week, Menendez’s legal team threw Nadine under the bus, saying she kept gold bars in the couple’s home without lawmakers’ knowledge.

His defense strategy was revealed despite Nadine announcing she has breast cancer.

The Democrat’s attorney, Avi Weitzman, claimed during opening remarks that the “gold bars were found in a locked closet” and that it wasn’t the lawmaker’s closet, but “it’s Nadine’s closet.”

He then pulled out 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 allege that Menendez was directly involved in the bribery scheme.

“This case is about a public servant who put greed first. Who put his power up for sale,” U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz said Wednesday.

‘This was not politics as usual. This was politics for profit.”

‘He was powerful. He was also corrupt. And what was his price? Gold bars,” Pomerantz said.

Money was even put into a Timberland boot found in his home

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives in federal court on May 21

Senator Bob Menendez’s home was littered with gold bars and stacks of cash

Stacks of cash were found throughout Menendez’s home

Footage was captured by the FBI during their raid on the Menendez home in June 2022

Documents containing cash were discovered

“The scheme lined his pockets, it lined his wife’s pockets, and it fed their greed.”

“Menendez abused his positions to feed his own greed and keep his wife happy,” federal prosecutors said.

Pomerantz even claimed that Menendez used his wife to handle communications as part of the bribery scheme.

“He used Nadine as an intermediary to deliver messages to and from the people who paid bribes.”

Judge Sidney H. Stein, who is presiding over the case, told potential jurors that renowned lawmakers, former White House officials and even one man believed to be in the running for a vice presidential position for Trump could all be called in to to testify in the high-profile corruption case.

More cash in $20 bills was spewed throughout the house

More photos were taken of what appears to be a safe

The jury was shown the exhibits of all the money found around Menendez’s home

The list of potential witnesses released by Stein included: Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Lindsey Graham, RS.C., Tim Scott, RS.C., Cory Booker, DN.J., Tim Kaine, D-Va., Chris Coons, D-Del., Patrick Leahy , D-Vt., 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 adviser to President Obama David Axelrod and Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.

The list of potential witnesses specifically mentions Scott, who is said to be a top choice for Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate.

It also mentions two of the former president’s closest advisers: Mnuchin and Pompeo.