Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) is claiming his innocence in a statement prior to reported incoming indictments, which were first reported by NBC News on Friday, May 3.
Mr. Cuellar, who has represented Texas’s 28th Congressional District since 2005, said in the statement that he and his wife were both innocent and all of his actions in Congress have “been to serve the people of South Texas.”
“Before I took any action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm,” Mr. Cuellar said in the statement obtained by The Epoch Times. “The actions I took in Congress were consistent with the actions of many of my colleagues and in the interest of the American people.”…
