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The criminal indictment against Cuellar includes charges of bribery, money laundering, wire fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent.

Inside the Henry Cuellar indictment

The newly unveiled federal criminal indictment against Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) and his wife Imelda Cuellar alleges that the veteran pol used a series of shell companies, “sham contracts” and fake invoices to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a Mexican bank over a years-long period.

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