US lawmaker Cuellar hit with bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan, Mexican bank By Reuters

By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico, court papers showed.The federal indictment, returned by a grand jury in Texas on Tuesday and unsealed on Friday, said the bribes were…