It’s unclear why the FBI searched Henry Cuellar’s home and campaign headquarters in January.
Federal agents search the home of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in Laredo, Texas, on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. WASHINGTON — An attorney for U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat whose home and campaign office were searched by the FBI earlier this year, says the Department of Justice told him that the congressman is not a target in the federal investigation.
“Over the last several weeks, the Justice Department, in a conversation I had with the prosecutor, let me know that Congressman Cuellar is not a target of this investigation,” Joshua Berman, Cuellar’s attorney,Berman confirmed the same to Hearst Newspapers in a text message on Wednesday, saying: “DOJ informed me that Congressman Cuellar is not a target of the investigation.”The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
by his campaign. “I am fully cooperating with law enforcement and committed to ensuring that justice and the law is upheld.”Cuellar is the co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus and has a long relationship with the nation’s Ambassador Elin Suleymanov, whom he has credited with helping to establish a partnership between Texas A&M International University and the Assembly of the Friends of Azerbaijan.
He also has ties to a Houston-based businessman who was convicted of lying to Congress about Azerbaijan’s role in funding a 2013 trip to the western Asian nation for 10 lawmakers, federal records show. Kemal Oksuz, who pleaded guilty in that case, was a regular campaign donor to Cuellar and other Texas politicians and in 2015 enlisted Cuellar to establish the partnership.
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