Corrupt Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar Caught Taking Bribes

In 2013, U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife took a seemingly routine trip to Turkey and Azerbaijan, funded by an obscure Houston-based nonprofit.

What followed, federal prosecutors now allege, was a years-long scheme involving foreign influence, money laundering, and one of the most serious indictments ever brought against a sitting member of Congress.

According to a federal indictment unsealed last week, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities: Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, SOCAR, and Mexico’s Banco Azteca.

Prosecutors allege that Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo, Texas, used his office to advance the interests of these entities in exchange for payments disguised as consulting fees to shell companies owned by his wife.

The indictment accuses Cuellar of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government—a rare charge previously brought against Sen. Bob Menendez in 2023 for working on behalf of Egypt.

The Cuellars allegedly funneled money through front companies, spent it on luxury items such as a $12,000 gown and restaurant bills, and concealed the transactions through intermediaries.

One of those intermediaries, Florencio “Lencho” Rendon, a longtime associate of Cuellar, has already pleaded guilty to money laundering. So has Colin Strother, Cuellar’s former chief of staff and campaign manager, who prosecutors say funneled monthly payments to Cuellar’s wife.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/corrupt-democrat-rep-caught-taking-bribes/

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Appeals court blocks contempt proceedings against Trump administration over El Salvador deportations

Judge James Boasberg had sought contempt proceedings over the March 15 removals.

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's attempt to initiate contempt proceedings against the Trump administration related to the March deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, in what the panel's majority described as an "extraordinary, ongoing confrontation between the Executive and Judicial Branches."

In a 2-1 decision, Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao both Trump appointees vacated Judge Boasberg's contempt-related order that sought to determine if members of the Trump administration deliberately defied a court order after the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March.

"The district court's order raises troubling questions about judicial control over core executive functions like the conduct of foreign policy and the prosecution of criminal offenses. And it implicates an unsettled issue whether the judiciary may impose criminal contempt for violating injunctions entered without jurisdiction," Judge Katsas wrote in a concurring opinion.

The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act an 18th century wartime authority used to remove noncitizens with little-to-no due process to deport two planeloads of alleged migrant gang members to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a "hybrid criminal state" that is invading the United States.

Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order and ordered that the planes be turned around, but Justice Department attorneys said his oral instructions directing the flight to be returned were defective, and the deportations proceeded as planned.

Boasberg subsequently sought contempt proceedings against the government for deliberately defying his order.

Judge Katsas, in Friday's decision, wrote that the "ambiguities" in Judge Boasberg's original order blocking the removal of the migrants make it impossible to definitively say that the Trump administration acted in contempt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-blocks-contempt-proceedings-administration-cecot-deportations/story?id=124486356