An aide to Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who is aiming to have Vice President Joe Biden host the event in 2010 for the first time contacted business partner Hunter Biden with a request, an email on the first son’s laptop plan was abandoned.
Danny O’Brien, who served as Menendez’s chief of staff from 2008 to 2015, called Eric Schwerin, an associate of Hunter at Rosemont Seneca Partners, around April 2010 to discuss the annual meeting of the US-Spain Council — which works to build relations between Washington and Madrid.
“Danny would like to explore with you the possibility of getting the VP to host an event at NAVOB for the group,” Schwerin said in an April 7, 2010 email to Hunter Biden, referring to the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory.
At the time, Menendez served as honorary chairman of the event, which planned to host the “CEOs of major banks” in Spain as well as the country’s foreign minister, according to Schwerin.
“I think Solomont mentioned your interest in Spain and that’s why Danny called us,” he also told Hunter, referring to then US Ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont.
O’Brien later confirmed in an April 28 email that a formal letter extending the invitation had been sent to the vice president’s office. The request was denied, prompting O’Brien to plead with Hunter again for his father’s presence.
An aide to Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who wanted to get then-Vice President Biden to host a US-Spain event in 2010 first contacted business partner Hunter Biden with the request, an email on the first son’s laptop plan that left behind .CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
“Please see the review request I just sent to the Vice President’s office. Any chance you could forward it to Hunter?” O’Brien wrote in a May 6, 2010 email to Schwerin. “Ambassador Solomont was in yesterday and will discuss the matter with the Vice President when they meet in Madrid later this week.”
Schwerin forwarded the exchange to Hunter, relaying that he already knew the vice president “showed he wanted to stay down and play golf” that weekend rather than attend the event before “he went to the National Park.”
Danny O’Brien, who served as chief of staff to Menendez from 2008 to 2015, called Eric Schwerin, Hunter’s partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, around April 2010 to discuss the annual meeting of the US-Spain Council.AP
Menendez serves as chairman of the group, which plans to host the “CEOs of major banks” in Spain as well as the country’s foreign minister, according to Schwerin.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
O’Brien, who previously worked for Joe Biden in the Senate and as an adviser to his 2008 campaign, anticipated the reasoning, telling Schwerin: “he’s probably going to want to stop and play golf, right?”
Eventually, O’Brien petitioned the second son directly about the invitation — and the two attended a Washington Nationals baseball game in June 2010, months before the event was set to take place, other emails show.
Who is involved in the allegations of Senator Bob Menendez
The New Jersey Democrat faces charges of taking gold bullion and bribery and keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash around his home in return for using his “power and influence” — including his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — to benefit the Egyptian government and two local businessmen.
Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez are accused of accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes including gold bars worth more than $100,000.
Senators Robert Menendez and Nadine Menendez
The New Jersey Democrat was indicted Friday for allegedly accepting a Mercedes Benz C-Class sedan, 13 gold bars and $566,000 in cash, which FBI agents found “stuffed in envelopes” after a June 2022 search of his home.
Senator Menendez’s wife, Nadine, was charged with her husband for accepting bribes. The Menendeze family also received mortgage payments, recliners, exercise machines and other items in exchange for protecting co-defendants Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.
Bob Menendez also allegedly tried to intervene in the criminal case against Daibes by recommending that President Biden select the current US Attorney for New Jersey, Philip Sellinger, who the senator believed would apply a light touch to the cause.
If convicted of all charges, the Democratic senator faces up to 45 years in prison.
Real estate developer Fred Daibes is accused of bribing the senator and his wife with cash and gold bars.AP
Fred Daibes
Menendez and his wife allegedly had a longtime relationship with New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes, who, according to court papers, bribed the couple with gold bars and cash for a series of favors, including helping a senator thwart a federal prosecution of Daibes.
Daibes received probation after pleading guilty last year to entering false loan information.
Bob and Nadine Menendez used cash bribes to buy a 2009 Mercedes C-class convertible, authorities said. US District Court
Jose Uribe
In April 2019, Menendez’s wife Nadine met a former insurance agent from Union City, NJ. Jose Uribe “for five minutes.” Nadine pulled into the parking lot of a restaurant where Uribe, 56, handed her $15,000 in cash, court papers allege.
He then used the cash to make a down payment on a Mercedes-Benz C-class convertible — while Uribe asked the senator to interfere with the state attorney general’s prosecution of one of his friends for insurance fraud, according to court documents.
Wael Hana
Menendez allegedly updated unnamed Egyptian officials in real time about US military aid to the country through Edgewater, NJ., businessman Wael Hana. The businessman sent Menendez’s proposal for foreign military sales to Egypt of tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition for guns and tanks to Egyptian officials for approval.
Wael Hana who comes from Egypt is a businessman.
In early 2021 Hana allegedly used funds from her halal business to send two exercise machines and an air purifier, among other items, to Menendez’s home.
In exchange for these gifts and other alleged bribes, Menendez improperly pressured a US Department of Agriculture official to protect the “exclusive monopoly” Hana was granted in 2019, when signing US food exported to Egypt as complying with halal standards, even though Hana did not have previous experience with halal certification, the feds said.
The conversation appears to have kicked off efforts to promote the American subsidiary of Spanish train manufacturer CAF.
The conversation appears to have kicked off efforts to promote the American subsidiary of Spanish train manufacturer CAF.REUTERS
“Eric (my partner) will email you tonight. I told him I think we (my group) should make the case that CAF USA needs to increase its appeal to key members who can appeal to WH/DOT,” Hunter wrote in a Sept. 14, 2010 email to Hilary Rosen, partner at PR firm SKDKnickerbocker.
“They need Menendez (heavily involved in the US-Spain trade advisory) to lead (not Lautenberg- they hate each other) they need him to go to [Sen. Chuck] Schumer [D-NY] and express alarm that NY is in danger of losing [sic] hundreds of jobs and go to Steny and show that MD faces the same fate in losing supplier jobs,” he added, referring to former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
“You’ve obviously pulled them back from the brink, but the notion that they don’t hire world-class lobbyists because they have a world-class PR firm is ridiculous,” Hunter also told Rosen.
“I want to send that message but only if it doesn’t interfere with where you’re going. I obviously can’t lobby, but if I could I would be in Schumer’s office begging and arguing for a job in NY.”
CAF’s manufacturing plant is located in Elmira Heights, NY. In July 2010, the firm won a bid for a nearly $300 million contract with Amtrak, according to a trade publication.
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