Rep. Cuellar Swears He’s Innocent After Report of Imminent Indictment

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) insisted in a statement Friday that he’s innocent of any wrongdoing—a declaration that came mere minutes after NBC News reported that he would be indicted by the DOJ on Friday.

Cuellar, who’s represented South Texas in Congress for two decades, wrote in his statement that “everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people” and that what he did was “consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people.”

The imminent indictment may be related to a federal probe into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country. Federal agents raided Cuellar’s house and office in 2022 as part of that probe, but Cuellar tamped down the controversy by claiming he wasn’t the subject of the investigation but that he’d agreed to cooperate with authorities.

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