The night Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine met three Egyptian men at a ritzy steakhouse in Washington, D.C., Terrie Williams-Thompson was sitting nearby, straining to hear.

The dinner companions were talking “low,” barely above a whisper, said Williams-…

Two political operatives-turned-venture capitalists would triple Mohds money in just 18 months if he invested $300,000 in their new California winery.
The pair had been paid in grapes by a former cl…