Breaking: Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on federal bribery charges-Second Round. UPDATE: GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!

[the cac mamba]

a national disgrace. Schumer is disgusting

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Arianne Martell]

hopefully we get a trial by spring and get this cuban piece of shyt out of here

 

[Arianne Martell]

Cole world

New Jersey businessman pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate in Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case

A New Jersey businessman has pleaded guilty to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez admitting that he gave a car to the senator's wife to influence the lawmaker.

apnews.com

Are the Democrats going to continue the charade?

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Cole world

New Jersey businessman pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate in Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case

A New Jersey businessman has pleaded guilty to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez admitting that he gave a car to the senator's wife to influence the lawmaker.

apnews.com

Are the Democrats going to continue the charade?

Charade of what? GOP already set that precedent of not resigning until they are fully indicted and convicted… if anything they will just bush him off any committees since his seat is up in Nov.. The current Gov’s wife is running or that seat and some Asian breh.. as of right now like the Govs wife gonna win it

 

[the cac mamba]

Charade of what? GOP already set that precedent of not resigning until they are fully indicted and convicted… if anything they will just bush him off any committees since his seat is up in Nov..

that isn't true. they JUST booted Santos and lost a seat for their trouble

and this piece of shyt Menendez says he's running for reelection in november. dems need to kick this fukking criminal out he's a national disgrace

 

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NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey businessman who gave Mercedes-Benz to Sen. Bob Menendez' wife pleads guilty to bribery, agrees to testify.

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Breaking news: New Jersey businessman Jose Uribe has pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe Senator Robert Menendez with a Mercedes-Benz.

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Jose Uribe, a former New Jersey insurance broker involved in a bribery scheme with Senator Robert Menendez, pleaded guilty on Friday in Manhattan.

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He was accused of providing Nadine Menendez, the senator's wife, with a Mercedes-Benz in exchange for Mr. Menendez's intervention in an insurance fraud investigation.

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Uribe pleaded guilty to seven counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and tax evasion.

Sentencing is scheduled for June 14, potentially overlapping with Mr. Menendez's trial, set to begin on May 6.

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[Arianne Martell]

Sen. Bob Menendez and wife face new obstruction charges in bribery case

The new accusations appear to result from last week's guilty plea of co-defendant Jose Uribe.

abcnews.go.com

 

[the cac mamba]

kick this filth out of the Senate, now. Schumer is a fukking disgrace

a Dem governor appoints a Democrat replacement. nothing of value is lost here

 

[the cac mamba]

schumer is either a fukking crook, or the weakest man in washington. this is a national disgrace

 

[bdkane]

schumer is either a fukking crook, or the weakest man in washington. this is a national disgrace

I feel you and he needs to resign. That said, Trump is running for president. If you can run for president with almost hundred counts against you then surely you can run for senate with a couple dozen. Not my logic but this country's

 

[the cac mamba]

I feel you and he needs to resign. That said, Trump is running for president. If you can run for president with almost hundred counts against you then surely you can run for senate with a couple dozen. Not my logic but this country's

i'd like the Dems to be better than donald trump i guess it's a tall order

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I feel you and he needs to resign. That said, Trump is running for president. If you can run for president with almost hundred counts against you then surely you can run for senate with a couple dozen. Not my logic but this country's

NJ voters going to smash the shyt out of him lmaoo

 

[Arianne Martell]

these old fukks are going to run the DJT playbook

 

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Bob Menendez "on the take": Senator's corruption trial underway

The New Jersey senator allegedly took cash, gold and a Mercedes in exchange for favors for foreign officials.

www.salon.com

Bob Menendez "on the take": Senator's corruption trial underway​

The New Jersey senator allegedly took cash, gold and a Mercedes in exchange for favors for foreign officials​

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PUBLISHED MAY 15, 2024 6:47PM (EDT)​

US Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court, in New York City on May 15, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez — charged with 16 felony counts, including accepting bribes from foreign governments in the form of gold bars, a new car and cash — commenced Wednesday.

The one-time chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez allegedly worked on behalf of the Egyptian and Qatari governments, exchanging government secrets for a new Mercedes-Benz for his wife and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars, which federal investigators found stitched into jackets and stuffed in safe deposit boxes. The Democratic senator is also accused of accepting bribes from businessmen, including Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, two codefendants in his case, in exchange for personal favors.

Federal Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz laid out the state’s case against Menendez in opening arguments, telling the jury that Hana, who has ties to the Egyptian government, proposed that Nadine Menendez, then-girlfriend of the senator, could help him with issues with his halal food import business, beginning a long-running saga of corruption.

The senator’s wife acted as a middleman between her husband and those who sought to influence him, federal prosecutors say.

“This was not politics as usual. This was politics for profit. This was a United States senator on the take,” Pomerantz said, per the New York Times.

Working with the government is Jose Uribe, another New Jersey businessman and former codefendant, who took a deal to share his testimony. Uribe purchased Nadine a Mercedes in exchange for her husband pushing for an insurance fraud investigation to end.

For Menendez, attorney Avi Weitzman delivered the defense’s opening statements, arguing that the “lifelong public servant” was engaging in routine diplomacy — and that the cash found in his home was the result of habits from his poor immigrant parents.

Weitzman also built a case that Nadine fooled her husband, keeping her personal financial woes a secret from him, arguing that the pair led separate lives.

Menendez, still mulling a run for re-election as an independent, avoided traceable communications with those he allegedly took bribes from, not going much further than a Google search for “how much one kilo of gold [is] worth” after a trip to Egypt. But prosecutors intend to use messages between Nadine and others to build the case that there was a direct exchange of favors for money.

“The text messages will tell you what happened," Pomerantz reportedly told jurors. "As you read those messages you’ll see the scheme unfold.”