#robert menendez

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇲 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.

[hezigler]

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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[gwydionmisha]

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

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[workersolidarity]

🇺🇲🇪🇬 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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[kevinmmiller]

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

[scottguy]

If the evidence is credible, I'm all for it. SOME parties don't ignore and tolerate corrupt behavior.

We have to set the example, the one that Republicans refuse to set, and show Americans which party REALLY DOES care about the rule of law.

New Jersey's governor calls on Menendez to resign after indictment. "I am calling for his immediate resignation," New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said of Sen. Robert Menendez, a fellow Democrat. https://t.co/PHY1tM1gYP http://dlvr.it/SwV0b8

[lyle-and-erik-menendez]

“We alone know the truth. We alone know the secrets of our family’s past. I do not look forward to broadcasting them around the country. —from a seventeen-page letter written by Lyle to Erik, June 1990”

Excerpt From The Menendez Murders

[newwavesylviaplath]

so glad ryan murphy chose a new random ass twink to torture! evan peters your time is UP

[themenendezbrothers]

"His testimony just shocked the entire court. I mean, the entire family was crying. Jurors were crying. It was interesting because there was a feeling that Lyle had sort of been in charge and Erik was the sensitive one. But Lyle’s testimony was so raw and so powerful, especially being 20 feet away, not watching on the Court TV feed." - Robert Rand

Re: Ryan Murphy's "Monsters" Netflix series depiction of Lyle and Erik.

"Lyle and Erik are also depicted partying and doing cocaine. Lyle’s friends used to actually make fun of him a little because he really didn’t party. His favorite cocktail was a Tequila Sunrise and he’d drink wine coolers in college.

And remember, I actually met them at the age they are in the miniseries—I knew them—and they were just nothing like that. They were somewhat conservative. They were soft spoken. They were shy".

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