Foreign $ to sway Cuellar on domestic agendas?
The excursions have been facilitated by local U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, who has touted the “vast opportunity to strengthen South Texas’ relationship with Azerbaijan.”
texastribune.org/2022/01/27/hen…
The excursions have been facilitated by local U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, who has touted the “vast opportunity to strengthen South Texas’ relationship with Azerbaijan.”
texastribune.org/2022/01/27/hen…
Subpoenas reviewed from the probe by ABC News reportedly sought records from a number of organizations with ties to Azerbaijan, in addition to three Texas-based companies with ties to Cuellar’s wife, Imelda.
2015
The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
2013 he and his wife, Imelda, traveled to Azerbaijan, at a cost of nearly $25K paid for by the Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians, a Texas-based nonprofit. For the next several years, Cuellar frequently collaborated with Kemal Oksuz, the leader of the nonprofit.
From the scarce details available so far, the raid appears to have been connected to Cuellar’s attempts to extend his cozy relationship with the U.S. fossil fuel industry to its counterparts abroad.
newrepublic.com/article/165127…
newrepublic.com/article/165127…
Records show that Rep. Henry Cuellar of TX and his staff took multiple sponsored trips to Azerbaijan in recent years as he finds himself reportedly entangled in a federal probe investigating ties between U.S. businessmen and the former Soviet republic
foxnews.com/politics/rep-c…
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