#robert menendez

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🇺🇲 US Senator Bob Menendez, D-NJ and his wife Nadine have been Indicted on Felony Bribery Charges

US Prosecutors revealed on Friday US Senator Robert Menendez (69), D-NJ and his wife Nadine have been Indicted on Federal Felony charges of Conspiracy to Commit Bribery, Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Fraud, and Conspiracy to Commit Extortion Under Color of Official Right.

The indictment alleges New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife accepted bribes including cash, gold bars, payments on a home mortgage, compensation for a no-show job (guess his last name isn't Biden), luxury vehicles and other forms of payment.

Prosecutors say they executed a Search Warrant of Senator Menendez and his wife's home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey back in June, 2022. While searching the couple's home, Prosecutors say they found more than $480'000 cash, most of it stuffed away in envelopes, hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe. The indictment also alleges cash was found in the Senator's closet in jackets with his name embroidered on it, as well as $70'000 cash in a safe deposit box owned by the Senator's wife.

Also discovered during the execution of the Search Warrant was a Mercedes Benz convertible valued at over $60'000, given to Senator Menendez's wife by two New Jersey Businessmen, Wael Hana and Jose Uribe, allegedly in return for the Senator's interference in a criminal case involving an associate of the businessmen.

Also found by Federal Agents were gold bars valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars also given by the businessman Hana and another associate, Fred Daibes. All three businessmen were also charged by Federal Prosecutors.

Senator Bob Menendez is also accused of having "provided sensitive US Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt."

Another accusation in the indictment includes pressuring a US Department of Agriculture official for the purpose of protecting a business monopoly granted by Egypt to the businessman Wael Hana.

The indictment also alleges Senator Menendez "promised to and did use his influence and power and breach his official duty to recommend that the President nominate an individual for US Attorney for the District of New Jersey who Menendez believed" he could influence.

The charges against Senator Menendez and his wife were announced by Damien Williams, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York at a news conference on Friday.

Previously, Senator Menendez faced indictment in 2015 for allegedly accepting favors from an influential Florida eye doctor, but the case was dismissed after the jury split and was unable to reach a verdict.

Today's new charges filed against Senator Menendez and his wife were the culmination of a year-long Corruption investigation led by US Attorney Damien Williams for Southern District of New York.

[progressivemillennial]

It's wild for this guy to still have a job as a Senator. The training at jobs like mine makes it clear we want to avoid even the perception of impropriety. I could get in trouble for taking a $50.00 gift card; Senator Menendez allegedly has gold bars.

People like Bob Menendez, Clarence Thomas, George Santos, and so many others are not held remotely close to the standards that the working class is held to. They should all lose their jobs.

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Watch "Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson | The Daily Show" on YouTube

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[tomorrowusa]

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) needs to resign ASAP. He has been associated with scandals in the past though there had usually been a plausible (if thin) element of deniability. This latest scandal is different. If this were fiction, people might call it laughably unreal.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other top Garden State Democrats are calling on Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez to resign – a sign of how quickly the senator’s political support may erode after Friday’s shocking indictment on federal bribery charges. “The alleged facts are so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state,” Murphy, a Democrat, said in a statement. [ ... ] Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, are accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes,” including gold, cash and a luxury vehicle in exchange for the senator’s influence.

Seriously, gold bars?

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of NJ indicted a 2nd time on corruption charges

The indictment alleges real estate developer Fred Daibes; Wael Hana, who owns a halal meat certification business in New Jersey; and businessman Jose Uribe collectively provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for Menendez’s “acts and breaches of duty to benefit the Government of Egypt, Hana, and others, including with respect to foreign military sales and foreign military financing.” It also says Menendez provided sensitive information to the Egyptian government. Menendez, a Democrat, leads the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and is a longtime member of New Jersey’s congressional delegation. The indictment comes almost six years after Menendez was tried on corruption charges related to a Florida eye surgeon, which ended in a mistrial. [ ... ]

The indictment says Menendez took bribes that included “cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-showjob, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value.” Prosecutors also say he interfered with the state attorney general’s office’s investigation into Jose Uribe, a former insurance agent convicted of fraud. The indictment describes Uribe as a business associate of Hana’s.

Some of Bob's gold...

If Menendez were to resign, Gov. Phil Murphy (a Democrat) would appoint a replacement to serve until the next election in 2024. As it turns out, Menendez is up for re-election next year. If he foolishly refused to quit and decided to run again, he'd probably get trounced in the primary.

The Senate can expel a member, but there have been only 30 attempts to do so since the adoption of our current constitution. Only half of those were actually expelled – the last one in 1862.

Damian Williams is the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He opened the investigation of Menendez last year and secured the three-count indictment against the senator. Williams is a Democrat appointed by President Joe Biden. So the Menendez indictment makes it more difficult for Trump and his followers to claim that the two federal indictments against him in Florida and DC are a partisan "witch hunt" targeting him.

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President Biden, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, has continued to reject pressure to bow out of the 2024 Presidential race and is recovering in isolation, according to his physician, and is expected to make a full recovery

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Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson | The Daily Show

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✌Robert Menendez Server Motion - Original Document✌

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Senator Robert Menendez and wife Nadine Arslanian arriving at federal courthouse in NYC this morning

Senator Robert Menendez and wife Nadine Arslanian arriving at federal courthouse in NYC this morning

Senator Robert Menendez and wife Nadine Arslanian arriving at federal courthouse in NYC this morning #ElderOrdonez @elderordonez1

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🇺🇲🇪🇬 NEW JERSEY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED WITH ACTING AS A FOREIGN AGENT FOR EGYPT

Embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was slapped with new superseding charges Thursday, accusing the longtime corrupt politician of acting as a Foreign Agent and accepting bribes from the government of Egypt.

The new indictment was handed down by a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan. The charges carry a sentence of up to two years in prison for failing to register as a public official acting as an agent for a foreign power.

The indictment accuses the Senator of providing "sensitive US Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt."

Just weeks ago, Senator Menendez and his wife Nadine pled not-guilty to corruption charges alleging he took bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bars found in his home in New Jersey.

The new charges say Menendez acted as an "agent of foreign principle" on behalf of the Government of Egypt from January 2018 to June 2022.

The new charges make no new allegations about accepting any additional cash or services than that already cited in the previous indictment.

Further, the new indictment alleges Menendez used his position to send two letters to the Justice Department in May 2022, including one to Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting an unnamed former member of Congress be investigated for acting as a Foreign Agent.

As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez was responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in US Aid to Egypt.

The charges stemming from last month's indictment included allegations of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest service fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.

Those charges accuse the senator of accepting “cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and other items of value."

In addition to the current indictments and the new one announced today, the FBI is also investigating whether Egyptian Intelligence services were involved with Menendez's corruption.

So far, the New Jersey Senator has refuted all charges and refuses to step down from Congress.

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Estarían muy orgullosos… “Monstruos: La historia de Lyle y Erik Menendez”

La nueva entrega de la serie antológica “Monstruo” de Ryan Murphy e Ian Brennan, muestra el caso real de los hermanos Lyle y Erik Menendez, que en 1996 fueron sentenciados por el asesinato de sus padres, José y Kitty.

Aunque la fiscalía sostenía que el móvil del crimen era heredar la fortuna de la familia, los hermanos afirmaban, y siguen haciéndolo hasta hoy mientras cumplen cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, que sus acciones fueron la consecuencia de toda una vida de miedo por los abusos físicos, emocionales y sexuales a manos de sus padres.

La serie se sumerge en el histórico caso que conmocionó al mundo y plantea la pregunta, ¿quiénes son los verdaderos monstruos?.

Estreno: 19 de septiembre de 2024 en Netflix.

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La serie cuenta con las actuaciones de Cooper Koch, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny, Nathan Lane, Ari Graynor, Leslie Grossman, Dallas Roberts, Paul Adelstein, Jason Butler Harner, Enrique Murciano, Michael Gladis, Drew Powell, Jeff Perry, Tessa Auberjonois, Larry Clarke, Marlene Forte, Jade Pettyjohn, Tanner Stine y Charlie Hall.

Una temporada mordaz que vacila entre la objetividad y la especulación, ejemplificando como los casos pueden ser abordados desde la verosimilitud o la veracidad y cómo esto puede jugar a favor o en contra del veredicto. Además, toca de forma superficial algunas de las teorías filosóficas sobre la verdad, iniciando con el escepticismo, el relativismo y el perspectivismo, para después plantear el criticismo y el pragmatismo, para finalmente cuestionar si es posible obtener la verdad absoluta. Puntuación: ★★★★☆

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It’s gotten buried a bit underneath news about the negotiations over a cease-fire in Gaza, the related protests on U.S. college campuses, and the ongoing trial of a former president for allegedly covering up payments to a pornography actress, but high-profile Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar was indicted on Friday by the Department of Justice in Houston. He says he is not guilty of the charges and will stand for reelection as planned this fall.

Cuellar, a relatively conservative Democrat who represents a district that stretches along the U.S.–Mexico border around Laredo and pokes up to San Antonio, is charged with 14 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, and so forth related to allegations that he was paid under the table to influence U.S. policy on behalf of Azerbaijan’s national oil company, SOCAR, and the Mexican bank Banco Azteca. (Neither Banco Azteca nor SOCAR, nor any of their employees, have been charged with a crime.)

A longtime incumbent, Cuellar won his general-election race in 2022 by a wide margin. But his district, the 28th, has a significant population of Hispanic and/or Latino voters and has become more Republican in recent years as those groups have trended rightward. The Cook Political Report rates it as having a Democratic “lean” of 3 points—which, roughly speaking, means a generic Democrat would be expected to beat a generic Republican in the district by only a 3-point margin. That’s close enough to mean that Cuellar’s indictment and potential conviction could threaten Dems’ efforts to retake the House of Representatives, which Republicans currently hold by a tenuous four votes.

The case is similar to that of Democratic New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, another longtime incumbent who was indicted last September for allegedly accepting bribes from three men in New Jersey who were seeking to influence U.S. policy toward Egypt, among other things. Menendez’s trial is set to begin next week, and he says that if he is not convicted he still might run for reelection in November as an independent. While he’d be very unlikely to win such a race, he could potentially siphon enough votes away from the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, current Rep. Andy Kim, to throw the seat to Republicans.

So, both of these members of Congress are in high-stakes races that they are refusing to drop out of despite facing corruption indictments. But there’s another major similarity between the two stories as well: Wives!

Menendez’s wife Nadine was also charged in his case, and the allegations against the couple include claims that the men accused of seeking favors from the senator bought Nadine Menendez a Mercedes convertible and paid her to hold a fake no-show “job” at a halal-certification business. Cuellar’s wife Imelda was also indicted; she’s accused of receiving the alleged bribe payments from SOCAR and Banco Azteca through shell companies she owned that were ostensibly providing the firms with “consulting” services. The government alleges that, actually, Imelda Cuellar did “little to no legitimate work” in return for the hundreds of thousands of dollars she was paid.

A statement issued by Cuellar says his wife is innocent. Nadine Menendez has pleaded not guilty, although in a disclosure that may have caused some awkwardness around the proverbial Englewood Cliffs dinner table, Robert Mendendez’s attorneys told a judge in January that his potential testimony at trial might implicate her. Since then, however, the pair’s cases have been separated from each other in a way that will preclude anything he says from being used against his spouse.

Does the Democratic Party have an (alleged) Bribery Wife Guy problem? Are liberals soft on wife crime? This fall, the voters will have their say.

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What. A. Mess. (As Told By The Cartoon Artists)

Looming government shutdown, Dianne Feinstein’s death, Tuberville’s attack on the military, looming government shutdown, sham impeachment inquiry, UAW strike, looming government shutdown, rising fuel & food costs, war in Ukraine, corrupt members of Congress, Trump indictments, looming government shutdown, wildfires & floods, rich folk, guns, book banning … it’s all too much to take in … it … it…

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Robert Menendez's Family Business

Politics / September 22, 2023 The New Jersey senator was prosecuted by the Justice Department for a series of charges right out of The Sopranos Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) trips in the Senate train as he leaves the Senate chambers on February 16, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images) State what you will about New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, however he’s not an empty…

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President Biden, after a commanding vote of confidence during Super Tuesday primaries, delivered the annual State of the Union and presented his plan to help all Americans and finish the job entrusted to him four years ago

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Introduction of New Proposed Afghan Adjustment Act 

On July 13, 2023, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (Dem, MN) with five co-sponsoring Democrat Senators and six co-sponsoring Republican Senators introduced a new proposed Afghan Adjustment Act (S.2327). The Democrat co-sponsors are Senators Coon (DE), Blumenthal (CT), Shaheen (NH), Durban (IL) and Menendez (NJ), and the Republican co-sponsors are Senators Graham  (SC), Moran (KS), Mullin (OK),…