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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