Indicted New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and his wife Nadine have been charged with accepting bribes in the form of cash, gold, and luxury items. They have been accused of accepting bribes from Egypt and Qatar. Nadine's ex boyfriend, Douglas Anton, has shared that he witnessed something strange when Nadine first started dating Robert in 2018. He told the New York Post that when Nadine first started dating her now husband, she disappeared for a week without telling anyone what she was doing or where she was going.
Anton told the outlet that he was a bit alarmed when he showed up at Nadine's house and saw a "weird" note on the door. The reason he thought the note was strange is because it was typed. It reportedly read, "My love, I’m going away to see my girlfriend last minute as I need some time to de-stress. Be back Monday. Love you."
He explained to the outlet that he wasn't super concerned at first. However, days went by and he still hadn't heard from her, which prompted him to reach out to her loved ones. They hadn't heard anything either.
Before she reappeared, Anton called police for a welfare check, northjersey.com reported.
When police went to her home at the time, she was not there, but the lights were on and so were the TVs. It turned out she was in the Dominican Republic. The outlet reported that she informed the police she was safe and told them to tell Anton to stay away from her.
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Nadine reportedly returned a week after she disappeared. Anton said Nadine was "crying" and trying to "apologize."
He asked her why she just went away without saying anything about where she was going. “It was more about Bob wanting to be incognito," Anton told the New York Post. Nadine had been dating both men at the same time.
Police followed up later on, the outlet reported, and found Nadine with Wael Hana, an Egyptian American businessman who is now one of her codefendants in the bribery case. The New York Times has reported that all four defendants have pleaded not guilty.
